The Dark Wind

Lou Diamond Phillips as a Navajo policeman investigating a murder on a reservation. Fred Ward. Cowboy: Gary Farmer. Johnson: Guy Boyd. Jake: John Karlen. Archer: Lance Baker. Gail: Jane Loranger. Larry: Gary Basaraba. Ben: Blake Clark. Fannie: Faye B. Tso. Directed by Errol Morris., Whilst guarding a vandalised windmill in an isolated desert a young Navajo cop, new to the district, hears the sound of an airplane crashing into a canyon. On investigation he finds the piolt and another man dead at the site of the crash. Hassled by corrupt FBI agents he investigates the drug-related murders., Thriller in which a young Indian cop finds there is more to the case of a plane crash in the Arizona desert than meets the eye. When the corpse of a Navajo Indian is discovered on a reservation in Arizona, the investigating cop, a young Navajo himself, is intrigued to discover the dead man’s hands and feet have been flayed. Later he finds the remains of a crashed plane, containing the bodies of two cocaine smugglers., Noted documentary filmmaker Errol Morris made his dramatic feature debut with this story about murder and other dirty dealings on an American Indian reservation. Recent college graduate Jim Chee (Lou Diamond Phillips) has just taken a job with the Navajo Reservation Police in Arizona, where he helps keep the peace with his superior Joe Leaphorn (Fred Ward) on land earmarked for joint use by Navajo and Hopi tribes. Cowboy Dashee (Gary Farmer), a sheriff from the Hopi law enforcement group, discovers a decaying and unidentified body in the desert, an event he thinks may be linked to a recent robbery at the reservation’s trading post. The shop’s Hopi manager, Jake West (John Karlen), is convinced that Joe Musket, a Navajo drug dealer and ne’er-do-well, is responsible, and as Chee and Leaphorn investigate the murder, the robbery, and a mysterious plane crash, they find themselves drawn into a web of corruption, prejudice, and deceit. Dark Wind was based on a novel by noted crime author Tony Hillerman.