Black Fox

This action-packed Western, the first part of a trilogy based on the novel by Matt Braun, stars Christopher Reeve as Texas rancher Alan Johnson, who teams up with his "blood brother," ex-slave Britt (Tony Todd), to rescue settlers taken hostage by hostile Indians during a raid. With Raoul Trujillo.

Following Britt Johnson’s courageous rescue of the women and children of the settlement, taken hostage by Kiowa Indians in BLACK FOX, one woman, Delores Holtz, decides to stay with a Kiowa native, Running Dog, with whom she has fallen in love. Her racist, abusive husband, Ralph, blames Britt for the situation and organizes a hunting party of vigilantes to accompany him into Indian territory to recapture her. Britt tries to convince the townspeople that such action would incite an uprising, but is unsuccessful at gaining even Alan’s support. After Britt is savagely beaten by Holtz and a group of hooded cronies, Alan and Britt ride out to find Running Dog and talk things over. Though they try to prevent it, the encounter between Running Dog and Holtz is inevitable, and the two adversaries meet in a fight only one of them survives.

Britt is attacked by a group of bigots, led by Carl Glenn whom he ably defeats. Angry at being bested by a black man, Glenn seeks revenge and that night visits the Johnson homestead. After Alan goes outside to investigate a noise, his wife, Sarah, hearing the sound of a gunshot, grabs a pistol, opens the door of their cabin and calls out to her husband. Glenn, seeing only the glint of her weapon, fires and, in a terrible instant, Sarah is dead.  As a result, Alan descends into a state of alcoholic despair. Later, with grim resolution, he decides to trail Glenn and avenge Sarah’s death. Meanwhile, Britt becomes a U.S. Marshall and leaves his family to find Alan, an odyssey that leads both men into the untamed Kansas plains and, to a battle in which justice will ultimately prevail.