Jake Pindalest — Blood on the Moon Character Profile

About Jake Pindalest

An Indian agent and Riling's accomplice who officially orders Lufton to remove his herd from the reservation. Secretly colluding with Riling to force a cheap government sale, he is deceived by Garry to extend the deadline and is later captured and arrested.

Character Facts

Played by

Frank Faylen

Appears in

Blood on the Moon (1948)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (4)

• Jake Pindalest — Conflict Deceiver & Target — Jim Garry (Robert Mitchum)

  Garry manipulates the Indian agent to thwart the scheme and protect the rancher.

• Jake Pindalest — Alliance Co-Conspirators — Tate Riling (Robert Preston)

  Partners in crime combining financial manipulation with government power.

• Jake Pindalest — Conflict Government Oppressor — John Lufton (Tom Tully)

  An official using bureaucratic power to financially ruin a rancher.

• Jake Pindalest — Conflict Resisting Homesteader — Kris Barden (Walter Brennan)

  A clash between a corrupt official and a principled local settler.

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More characters from Blood on the Moon

• Jim Garry (Robert Mitchum)
• Amy Lufton (Barbara Bel Geddes)
• Tate Riling (Robert Preston)
• Kris Barden (Walter Brennan)
• Carol Lufton (Phyllis Thaxter)
• Milo Sweet (Charles McGraw)
• Frank Reardon (Tom Tyler)
• John Lufton (Tom Tully)
• Fred Barden (George Cooper)
• Joe Shotten (Clifton Young)
• Bart Daniels (Robert Bray)
• Toma (uncredited) (Iron Eyes Cody)