Tomahawk Trail ** (1957, Chuck Connors, John Smith, Susan Cummings, Lisa Montell, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 7577

In David Chandler’s screenplay from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams, a US Cavalry Sergeant relieves his incompetent lieutenant Jonathan Davenport (George N Neise) of command of a patrol after he has led the patrol into an Apache ambush on the Tomahawk Trail and is wounded.

Director Lesley Selander’s tepidly routine 1957 Western Tomahawk Trail is mundane and minor in every way, but it gets a lift from an early performance by Chuck Connors as Sergeant Wade McCoy. John Smith (later Slim Sherman in TV’s Laramie), Susan Cummings, Lisa Montell are also welcome players, and Harry Dean Stanton (billed as Dean Stanton)) gets his first billed role as the Lieutenant’s orderly, Private Miller, following his debut in Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man.

It is cheaply made on location in Kanab, Utah, by Schenck-Koch Productions and Bel-Air Productions in black and white unfortunately, and runs only 60 minutes.

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