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Howard Keel | ... |
Capt. Tom York
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Joan Caulfield | ... |
Dakota Lil McCoy
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Broderick Crawford | ... |
Columbus Smith
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Scott Brady | ... |
Ep Wyatt
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Wendell Corey | ... |
Sy Elkins
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Richard Arlen | ... |
Telegrapher
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Tom Drake | ... |
Bill Kane
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Tracy Olsen | ... |
Sal
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Ben Cooper | ... |
Lt. Drake
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Don 'Red' Barry | ... |
Bly - Deserter
(as Donald Barry)
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Gerald Jann | ... |
Wu Sing
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Regis Parton | ... |
Prospector
(as Reg Parton)
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Roy Jenson | ... |
Prospector
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Dan White | ... |
Ned Crone
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Henry Wills | ... |
Samuels
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Sol Gorss | ... |
Townsman - Roulette Player
(as Saul Gorss)
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Duke Fishman | ... |
Barfly (uncredited)
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Ben Frommer | ... |
Townsman (uncredited)
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Kenner G. Kemp | ... |
Barfly (uncredited)
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Joe Ploski | ... |
Townsman (uncredited)
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Cap Somers | ... |
Townsman (uncredited)
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Jack Tornek | ... |
Townsman (uncredited)
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George Tracy | ... |
Barfly (uncredited)
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Sailor Vincent | ... |
Saloon Gambler (uncredited)
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Directed by
R.G. Springsteen |
Written by
Steve Fisher | ... | (screenplay) |
Andrew Craddock | ... | (story) |
Steve Fisher | ... | (story) |
Produced by
A.C. Lyles | ... | producer |
Music by
Jimmie Haskell |
Cinematography by
W. Wallace Kelley | ... | director of photography |
Editing by
John F. Schreyer |
Art Direction by
Hal Pereira | ||
Al Roelofs |
Set Decoration by
Robert R. Benton | ... | (as Robert Benton) |
Ray Moyer |
Makeup Department
Nellie Manley | ... | hair stylist |
Wally Westmore | ... | makeup supervisor |
Production Management
Ted Leonard | ... | unit production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
James A. Rosenberger | ... | assistant director (as James Rosenberger) |
Sound Department
Harold Lewis | ... | sound |
John Wilkinson | ... | sound |
Visual Effects by
Paul K. Lerpae | ... | special photographic effects |
Stunts
Regis Parton | ... | stunt coordinator (uncredited) |
Script and Continuity Department
Cosmo Genovese | ... | script supervisor |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Paramount Pictures (1967) (United States) (theatrical) (A Paramount Picture)
- Paramount British Pictures (1967) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Film AB Paramount (1967) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1973) (United States) (tv) (original airing)
- Maritim Pictures (2018) (Germany) (DVD)
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Storyline
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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Did You Know?
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 » |