Best Friends is a 1975 film directed by Noel Nosseck and starring Richard Hatch

Richard Hatch

Richard Hatch is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica television series, and also as Tom Zarek in the remake of Battlestar Galactica....

. The film has a grossly misleading poster art which eludes to a Native American

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...

 revenge theme. In actuality, this thriller centers on the slow psychotic deterioration of a Vietnam war

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

veteran who aims to restore his carefree youth by eliminating his best friend's marital engagement. The events of the plot do briefly involve a striptease-inspired bar brawl with North American Indians, although briefly and to no great theme significance.