Red Tomahawk

1966
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1h 22m

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Broderick Crawford, Joan Caulfield, and Howard Keel in Red Tomahawk (1966)

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

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6/10

We've got Gatling fever!

Oscar-winner Broderick Crawford is amongst the cast here in this B-Western from Paramount. Howard Keel is Captain York, a government agent in 1876 South Dakota. He is the first to come across the massacre of General Custer and his men at Little Big Horn, and he makes his way to the local town of Deadwood to warn the locals about the impending Sioux attack. The locals are typically backward and hostile and ignore his requests to hand over the town's two Gatling guns so that he may take them to a the nearest army base for the soldiers to use against the Indians. Instead they set to barricade the town and point a gun at either end of it, which of course will be a futile manoeuvre. With a few allies, York sets out to take them by force...

There is nothing exceptional here, but "Red Tomahawk" (named after the Indian who killed Sitting Bull) is an entertaining production and it was not meant to be anything more than that. The performances are good, Keel, Crawford and Caulfield lead the way, and there is a decent amount of action.