Tumbleweed

Release Date: 1953-12-01

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.

Rating: 6.1 / 10

Cast

Audie Murphy

as Jim Harvey

Lori Nelson

as Laura Saunders

Chill Wills

as Sheriff Murchoree

Roy Roberts

as Nick Buckley

Russell Johnson

as Lam Blandon

Crew

Russell Metty - Director of Photography
Virgil W. Vogel - Editor
Nathan Juran - Director
Richard H. Riedel - Art Direction
John P. Austin - Set Decoration

Reviews

John Chard:

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 ...