"The film reveals its basic white-chauvinist bias, but it certainly seems to take itself seriously. It's of average length, but paced like an epic. There are four main movements in the plot: Return, Reconciliation, Revenge and Rebirth. If this seems a little thin for a two-hour movie, believe me, it is, even with all that portentous music trying to make it seem momentous". Ebert also criticized the repetition in the film from the original A Man Called Horse. Ebert commented that "what gets me is that initiation rite, which is repeated in this film in such grim and bloody detail you'd think people didn't have enough of it the last time. First Morgan has his pectoral muscles pierced with knife blades. Then eagle's talons are drawn through the wounds and tied to leather thongs. Then he hangs by the thongs until sufficiently purified. You'd think one ceremony like that would do the trick, without any booster shots". DVD The Return of a Man Called Horse was released to DVD by MGM Home Video on April 1, 2003 as a Region 1 widescreen DVD. References External links 1976 films 1976 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films American sequel films Films about Native Americans Films based on works by Dorothy M. Johnson Films directed by Irvin Kershner Films scored by Laurence Rosenthal Mexican Western (genre) films United Artists films 1970s English-language films 1970s American films 1970s Mexican films