''Navajo Blues'' is a 1996 American crime-action film produced and directed by
Joey Travolta
Joseph Allen Travolta (born October 14, 1950) is an American actor, singer, producer, director and screenwriter. He is the older brother of actor John Travolta.
Early life
Travolta was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, a nearby suburb o ...
and starring
Steven Bauer,
Irene Bedard
Irene Bedard (born July 22, 1967) is an American actress, who has played mostly lead Native American roles in a variety of films. She is perhaps best known for the role of Suzy Song in the 1998 film '' Smoke Signals'', an adaptation of a Sherma ...
and
Charlotte Lewis
Charlotte Lewis (born 7 August 1967) is an English actress.
Early life
Lewis attended Bishop Douglass School in Finchley. Her mother is Irish-English, while her father—a doctor whom she never met—is half-Chilean and half-Iraqi.
Career
L ...
.
Plot
A
Las Vegas
Las Vegas (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas ...
police detective
A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. They often collect information to solve crimes by talking to witnesses and informants, collecting physical evidence, or searching records in databases. This leads th ...
hides out from the
Mafia
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on a
Navajo
The Navajo (; British English: Navaho; nv, Diné or ') are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.
With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members , the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United ...
reservation overrun by
ritual
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istic
murder
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s.
Cast
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Steven Bauer as Nick Epps / John Cole
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Irene Bedard
Irene Bedard (born July 22, 1967) is an American actress, who has played mostly lead Native American roles in a variety of films. She is perhaps best known for the role of Suzy Song in the 1998 film '' Smoke Signals'', an adaptation of a Sherma ...
as Audrey Wyako
*
Charlotte Lewis
Charlotte Lewis (born 7 August 1967) is an English actress.
Early life
Lewis attended Bishop Douglass School in Finchley. Her mother is Irish-English, while her father—a doctor whom she never met—is half-Chilean and half-Iraqi.
Career
L ...
as Elizabeth Wyako
* Barry Donaldson as Robert
*
Ed O'Ross
Ed O'Ross (born Edward Orss; July 5, 1949) is an American actor. Some of his prominent roles are as Itchy in '' Dick Tracy'', Colonel Perry in '' Universal Soldier'', Lt. Touchdown in '' Full Metal Jacket'', ruthless Georgian mobster Viktor Ros ...
as Not Lightning Struck
* George Yager as Stevens
* Tom Fridley as Toby Jr.
*
Jack Bannon
John James Bannon (June 14, 1940 – October 25, 2017) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Art Donovan on ''Lou Grant'', a role he played for the duration of the series, from 1977 to 1982.
Early life
Bannon was born on June ...
as Captain Hansen
*
Michael Horse
Michael Horse (born Michael James Heinrich; December 21, 1949) is an American actor known for his portrayals of Native American characters in film and television.
Early life
Horse was born Michael James Heinrich near Tucson, Arizona, on Decem ...
as Begay
* Billy Daydoge as Grandfather Wyako
* Israel Gonzales as John
*
Heather Black as Amy
* Kenneth McCabe as Kincaid
*
Addison Randall
Addison Byron Owen Randall (May 12, 1906 – July 16, 1945) was an American film actor, chiefly in Westerns. He often used a pseudonym for his film work, chiefly Jack Randall, though he played roles as Allen Byron and Byron Vance too.
Ear ...
as Quimbly
References
External links
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1990s crime action films
American crime action films
Films about Native Americans
Films set in the Las Vegas Valley
Films about the American Mafia
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
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