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Tumbleweed

Name: Tumbleweed
Genre: Western
Released: 1953-12-01
Duration: 79 min
Rating: 6.25

★ 6,3 /10 (18 Votes)

1953 EN 79 min

Overview

Jim Harvey is hired to guard a small wagon train as it makes its way west. The train is attacked by Indians and Harvey, hoping to persuade Aguila, the chief, to call off the attack due to Harvey's having saved his son's life, leaves the train to negotiate. He is captured and the rest of the train is wiped out except for two sisters. Escaping and showing up in town later, Harvey is nearly hanged as a deserter, but gets away. Eventually caught by the sheriff and his posse, they are attacked by Indians. This time the Indians are defeated and Aguila, captured and dying, reveals the identity of the white man who engineered the initial attack on the wagon train, just as the perpetrator rides up behind them.

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01/12/1953

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The story of Jim Harvey...the savage terror he faced...the desert woman he loved!

Genres

Western

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

79 min

Audie Murphy

Jim Harvey

Lori Nelson

Laura Saunders

Chill Wills

Sheriff Murchoree

Roy Roberts

Nick Buckley

Russell Johnson

Lam Blandon

K.T. Stevens

Louella Buckley

Madge Meredith

Sarah Blandon

Lee Van Cleef

Marv

I. Stanford Jolley

Ted

Ralph Moody

Aguila

Ross Elliott

Seth Blandon

Eugene Iglesias

Tigre

Phil Chambers

Trapper Ross

Lyle Talbot

Weber

King Donovan

Wrangler

Harry Harvey

Prospector

Ezelle Poule

Mrs. Clark

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A man’s best friend is his horse. Tumbleweed is directed by Nathan Juran and adapted to screenplay by John Meredyth Lucas from the novel “Three Were Renegades” written by Kenneth Perkins. It stars Audie Murphy, Chill Wills, Lori Nelson, Roy Roberts, Russell Johnson, Lee Van Cleef, K.T. Stevens and Madge Meredith. Music is by Joseph Gershenson and cinematography by Russell Metty. It’s atypical Audie Murphy fare, which for his fans (of which I’m firmly one) is enough for a rollicking good time. Plot has Murphy as Jim Harvey, a Wagon Train leader who mistakenly gets called out for being a …

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