Red Tomahawk

Jan 1, 1967

1h 22m

★ 6.4

Hell bent to head off the West's worst massacre!

Overview

After Custer's defeat an army captain tries to warn a small town that the Sioux are coming. The inhabitants own two machine-guns but don't want to lend them to him.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Red Tomahawk Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Capt. Tom York

Howard Keel

Dakota Lil McCoy

Joan Caulfield

Columbus Smith

Broderick Crawford

Ep Wyatt

Scott Brady

Sy Elkins

Wendell Corey

Deadwood Telegrapher

Richard Arlen

Bill Kane

Tom Drake

Sal

Tracy Olsen

Lt. Drake

Ben Cooper

Saloon Gambler (uncredited)

Sailor Vincent

Bly

Don 'Red' Barry

Wu Sing

Gerald Jann

Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States.

6.6

They Died with Their Boots On

Nov 20, 1941

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.

7.8

Dances with Wolves

Mar 30, 1990

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

6.8

3 Bad Men

Aug 28, 1926

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

2.5

The Mystic Warrior

May 20, 1984

Saga about a proud band of Sioux Indians, and the efforts of one brave to save his people from destruction through the use of mysterious powers handed down by ancestors.

5.1

Bugles in the Afternoon

Mar 4, 1952

Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman.

6.3

The Indian Fighter

Dec 21, 1955

A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.

5.0

The Legend of Custer

Jan 1, 1968

Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer has been reinstated and assigned to command the 7th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hays. The regiment has become a ragtag outfit of thieves and ruffians and Custer must whip the soldiers into shape to fight, the Kiowa, Sioux and Blackfoot tribes who confront them. These tribes are being supplied shotguns by a white gunrunner and Custer and his men must rescue General Terry and the Fifth Cavalry Regiment from annihilation when they are ambushed and trapped by a large Kiowa war party.

5.7

Wild Bill

Dec 1, 1995

Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.

7.7

Stolen Women, Captured Hearts

Jan 16, 1997

Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too. When Tokalah noticed a terrified Anna with a Bible, he thinks this is an omen. Despite killing the other passengers of the wagon train, only Anna and Sarah may continue their voyage. The next day Anna and Sarah are kidnapped by Tokalah. At first terrified of her captors, the unhappily married Anna eventually falls in love with the noble, honorable Tokalah. After a year's captivity, Sarah is returned to her own people. Anna now must choose between her new life with Tokalah and her previous existence as the wife of farmer Daniel Morgan.

5.0

Sitting Bull

Oct 6, 1954

Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence, resulting in the famous Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Parrish, a friend to the Sioux, tries to prevent the bloodshed, but is court- martialed for "collaborating" with the enemy. Sitting Bull, however, manages to intercede with President Grant on Parrish's behalf.

4.2

The Great Sioux Massacre

Apr 25, 1965

Colonel Custer, an outspoken believer in fair treatment for the Indians, is ousted from his post and forced into retirement. Fueled by ambition when a Senator Blaine convinces him to run for President, Custer decides to upstage General Terry at Little Big Horn.

6.7

Woman Walks Ahead

Sep 10, 2017

Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off with an army officer intent on war with Native Americans.

5.1

The Black Dakotas

Sep 2, 1954

During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln sends an emissary with a peace treaty to the Sioux Indians. He also sends a gift of $130,000 in gold. This attracts the attention of Brock Marsh, the secret leader of a Confederate spy ring, who wants to keep the treaty from being signed and to also get his hands on the gold. Ruth Lawrence and Mike Daugherty work together against the machinations of Marsh

5.9

Saskatchewan

Mar 30, 1954

Story of blood brothers whose bonds are tested when marauding Sioux Indians cross the border to enlist the peaceful Cree in a battle against the Great White Father.

6.3

Thunderheart

Apr 3, 1992

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.

0.0

Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

Nov 1, 1991

An intimate exploration of the circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of murder in 1977, with commentary from those involved, including Peltier himself.

5.0

Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee

Oct 16, 1994

Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.

5.4

Skins

Sep 27, 2002

An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.