Gentle Savage (1973)

aka’s: Prologue To Wounded Knee/ Camper John/Up Yours, Pilgrim/
Once Upon A Tribe

When an Indian is wrongly accused of raping and beating a white woman, the white community seeks revenge. The vengeful mob, led by the woman’s step-father, is unaware that it’s really the step-father who is responsible for the crime. When the accused’s brother is slain, the Indian community retaliates. With William Smith and Joe Flynn (aka: Captain “Lead Bottom” Binghamton in McHale’s Navy).

On July 19, 1974, Joe Flynn died of a heart attack in the swimming pool of his Beverly Hills home. Apparently, he had gone into the pool with a cast on his broken leg. His body was found at the pool bottom, held down by the weight of the cast. He was 49 years old.