This is an interesting movie about the murders of a bunch of Osage Indians who lived on the Osage Rez in Oklahoma in the 1920s and 1930s. They had been sent to this miserable place because it was thought by government bureacrats and politicians, white ranchers, farmers, businessmen, etc., to be worthless land. A good place to place savage injuns. Later, after the Indians had settled there, oil was discovered on their land. Huge amounts. Suddenly, the Osage Indians were richer than four feet up a bull's azz.
Suddenly, Indians were being murdered right and left and no one knew who was committing the murders, but if a white man married an Indian woman, and she was killed/died, the white husband received her money. This movie shows how a white man, Bill Hale (Robert DeNiro), and his nephew, Ernist Burkart, (Leonardo DeCaprio) plotted to have Ernist marry a full blooded Indian, Mollie, kill her and get all her money. Hale is involved in ordering other murders and securing the money of the Indians murdered.
Murders continue until the Indian council sends several tribal members to Wash. D.C., to plead for help in solving the murders. Federal investigators are sent to Oklahoma to solve the killings. They are from a new bureau run by a man named "J. Edgar Hoover." The movie moves into how they did it, and what happened to the people involved in the crimes.
I enjoyed the movie and the performances of the actors. DeNiro and DeCaprio are very good, as are the rest of the players. Good acting by the minor characters, too. Sets are very well done as to location and period. It is a long movie, so buy a big bucket of buttered popcorn, a Snickers and Hersey bar with Almonds, and a large Coke. Hit the restroom before the flick starts.
Enjoy.
L.W.
