The Dark Wind

Infobox Film
name = The Dark Wind

---

caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Errol Morris
producer = Mario Kassar
Patrick Markey
writer = Eric Bergren
Neal Jimenez
starring = Lou Diamond Phillips
Fred Ward
John Karlen
Gary Farmer
music = Jerry Goldsmith
cinematography = Jost Vacano
editing = Freeman Davies
Susan Crutcher
distributor = New Line Cinema
Carolco Pictures
Le Studio Canal+
Seven Arts
Columbia Pictures (1993)
released = June 1, 1990
runtime = 111 min.
country = USA
language = English
Navajo
Hopi
budget = $65 million
gross = $261,299,840
followed_by =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0101664

The Dark Wind is the second Tony Hillerman novel to feature Officer Jim Chee. Recent college graduate Jim Chee has just taken a job with the Navajo Tribal Police in Arizona, where he helps keep the peace with his superior Joe Leaphorn on land earmarked for joint use by the Navajo and the Hopi. Cowboy Dashee, a sheriff from the Hopi law enforcement group, discovers a decaying and unidentified body in the desert, and thinks that the body may be linked to a recent robbery at the reservation's trading post. The shop's Hopi manager, Jake West, is convinced that Joe Musket, a Navajo drug dealer, is responsible for the killing. Chee and Leaphorn investigate the murder, the robbery, and a mysterious plane crash.

The novel was adapted as a feature film in 1991. It starred Lou Diamond Phillips as Chee, Fred Ward as Joe Leaphorn and Gary Farmer as Cowboy Dashee. It was directed by Errol Morris, a documentary film-maker making his dramatic feature debut, and was produced by Robert Redford.

External links

*imdb title|id=0101664|title=The Dark Wind