# Identify Western Film--Hero Stresses That People Must Die Quietly

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**Created:** [May 5, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-western-film-hero-stresses-that-people-must-die-quietly/983640 "2023-05-05T22:37:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-western-film-hero-stresses-that-people-must-die-quietly/983640/1 "2023-05-05T22:37:44Z")

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Title says most of it. I believe it may have involved Native Americans (as villains, probably!). Someone of the group is killed and cries out in either pain/anguish. Hero stresses to the others that you must not do that and later he (I think it was the hero) is killed (stabbed and thrown off a cliff, iirc) and falls silently to his death.

Saw it as a kid or teen, so mid-late 70s or before.

Thanks,

Sir Rhosis

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-western-film-hero-stresses-that-people-must-die-quietly/983640/2 "2023-05-05T23:15:39Z")

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The Devil’s Backbone?

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**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-western-film-hero-stresses-that-people-must-die-quietly/983640/3 "2023-05-06T21:53:29Z")

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No, that film is from 2001. Way too recent. Mine would be at least before 1980. Probably the 70s or 60s.

Thanks, though.

Sir Rhosis

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-western-film-hero-stresses-that-people-must-die-quietly/983640/4 "2023-05-06T22:23:07Z")

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No, not that Devil’s Backbone; [this](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0066984/) Devil’s Backbone.