The Last Frontier

Dec 7, 1955

1h 38m

★ 6.1

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Overview

Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Jed Cooper

Victor Mature

Captain Glenn Riordan

Guy Madison

Col. Frank Marston

Robert Preston

Gus

James Whitmore

Corinna Marston

Anne Bancroft

Captain Phil Clarke

Russell Collins

Sergeant Major Decker

Peter Whitney

Mungo

Pat Hogan

Spotted Elk (uncredited)

Guillermo Calles

First Sentry (uncredited)

John Cason

Red Cloud (uncredited)

Manuel Dondé

Trooper (uncredited)

Bill Hale

In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.

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