Walk the Proud Land

Walk the Proud Land
Film poster by Reynold Brown
Directed byJesse Hibbs
Written by
Based onApache Agent: The Story of John P. Clum
1936 bppk
by Woodworth Clum
Produced byAaron Rosenberg
Starring
Narrated byGrant Williams
CinematographyHarold Lipstein
Edited bySherman Todd
Music byJoseph Gershenson
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal-International
Release date
  • August 1, 1956 (1956-08-01)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.5 million (US)[1]

Walk the Proud Land is a 1956 American CinemaScope Technicolor Western film directed by Jesse Hibbs and starring Audie Murphy and future Academy Award winner Anne Bancroft. Filmed at Old Tucson Studios,[2] it recounts the first successful introduction of limited self-government by John Clum (1851–1932), Indian agent for the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in the Arizona Territory and is based on the 1936 biography Apache Agent by his son Woodworth Clum (1878-1946).

  1. ^ 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1956', Variety Weekly, January 2, 1957
  2. ^ Walk the Proud Land at Audie Murphy Memorial Site