Tomahawk

(1951)

82 minutes

Adventure / Biography / Western

Directed by George Sherman

Cast:

Van Heflin as Jim Bridger 
Yvonne De Carlo as Julie Madden 
Alex Nicol as Lt. Rob Dancy 
Preston Foster as Col. Carrington 
Jack Oakie as Sol Beckworth 
Tom Tully as Dan Castello 
John War Eagle as Red Cloud 
Rock Hudson as Burt Hanna 
Susan Cabot as Monahseetah 
Arthur Space as Captain Fetterman 
Russ Conway as Major Horton  
Ann Doran as Mrs. Carrington 
Stuart Randall as Sergeant Newell 

The film is set during 1866, where a gold discovery and an In 1866, a new gold discovery and an unsettled conference lead the U.S. Army to construct a road and station in land surrendered to the Sioux. Jim Bridger, a frontier scout is overwrought by this news, for his Cheyenne wife made him see the altercation from both parties. War is likely to come up with vicious people like Lieut. Rob Dancy. The powder-keg situation needs only a spark to bring war, and violent bigots like Lieut. Dancy.