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Red Tomahawk ()


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An army captain tries to convince the inhabitants of a village to hand him over two machine-guns so he can attack the indians.

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Capt. Tom York
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Dakota Lil McCoy
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Columbus Smith
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Ep Wyatt
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Sy Elkins
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Telegrapher
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Bill Kane
Tracy Olsen ...
Sal
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Lt. Drake
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Bly - Deserter (as Donald Barry)
Gerald Jann ...
Wu Sing
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Prospector (as Reg Parton)
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Prospector
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Ned Crone
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Townsman - Roulette Player (as Saul Gorss)
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Barfly (uncredited)
Ben Frommer ...
Townsman (uncredited)
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Barfly (uncredited)
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Townsman (uncredited)
Cap Somers ...
Townsman (uncredited)
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Townsman (uncredited)
George Tracy ...
Barfly (uncredited)
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Saloon Gambler (uncredited)

Directed by

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R.G. Springsteen

Written by

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Steve Fisher ... (screenplay)
Andrew Craddock ... (story)
 
Steve Fisher ... (story)

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A.C. Lyles ... producer

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Jimmie Haskell

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W. Wallace Kelley ... director of photography

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John F. Schreyer

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Hal Pereira
Al Roelofs

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Robert R. Benton ... (as Robert Benton)
Ray Moyer

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Nellie Manley ... hair stylist
Wally Westmore ... makeup supervisor

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Ted Leonard ... unit production manager

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James A. Rosenberger ... assistant director (as James Rosenberger)

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Harold Lewis ... sound
John Wilkinson ... sound

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Paul K. Lerpae ... special photographic effects

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Regis Parton ... stunt coordinator (uncredited)

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Cosmo Genovese ... script supervisor
Crew believed to be complete

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Plot Summary

Captain Tom York is dispatched to contact General Custer at Little Big Horn. There he finds the massacred 7th Cavalry and thousands of Sioux roaming the Black Hills. He rushes to warn the other regiments heading for Custer's location but needs to find a telegraph office in the nearest town. That town is Deadwood. The townsfolk seem oblivious to Custer's fate and to the fact that thousands of Sioux are coming their way. The telegraph is out of order and the locals mistake Captain York for a deserter. After a friend, Ep Wyatt, vouches for him, the misunderstanding is cleared up. York gets wind that big man Columbus Smith, whom York had a fistfight with, has a pair of Gatling Guns hidden nearby. When York and Ep Wyatt approach Smith, he reveals that saloon beauty and roulette dealer Dakota Lil McCoy actually owns the guns. In the saloon, Lil initially denies having Gatling Guns but eventually relents to the demands to surrender the guns at Captain York's request. The captain figures that a pair of such guns could save the day for the remaining Cavalry regiments heading toward the Sioux. However, getting the weapons is only half the dilemma, since the townsfolk argue that such guns would be better left in Deadwood to help defend the town against a possible Indian attack. Some town ruffians manage to the wrest the guns from York but he recovers them after a gunfight in which he's helped by Columbus Smith and Ep Wyatt. The trio loads the machine guns into a wagon and plan to pass undetected between numerous Sioux war parties camping on the Black Hills. They must deliver them in time to the incoming Cavalry regiments who have no clue about Custer regiment's annihilation or the exact strength of the Sioux army. Written by nufs68

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Taglines The Red Tomahawk strikes and the prairie blazes with the West's worst massacre! (original poster) See more »
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Also Known As
  • Fort Bastion ne répond plus (France)
  • Tomahawk rojo (Spain)
  • Tomahawkul roşu (Romania)
  • Der blutige Westen (Austria)
  • Machado Vermelho (Portugal)
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Trivia Producer A.C. Lyles stated in later years that Paramount costume designer Edith Head would pull clothing from Paramount wardrobe stock for his low-budget films off the record as a favor to him, since he could not afford her salary on his tiny budgets. In the case of this film, she advised Lyles that she would have her seamstresses in the wardrobe department who were not busy at the time make up new period clothing for Betty Hutton, since she already had Hutton's measurements from her heyday in Paramount films from the 1940s and early 1950s. These costumes were to keep the seamstresses busy during a lull in productions at Paramount and replace old wardrobe stock. That way Lyles would not be financially responsible for the new clothing items being made off the record for Hutton, who was to make her return to the screen with this western. See more »

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