Red Tomahawk

N.p. A.C. Lyles Productions, 1966. Collection of 21 vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 film in their original brown paper sleeve stamped "'RED TOMAHAWK' 66/365 A17."

Army captain Tom York (Howard Keel) arrives at the town of Deadwood after discovering the massacred 7th Cavalry and General Custer at Little Big Horn warning of an impeding Sioux attack. In desperate need of weapons, he knows 2 Gatling guns are somewhere hidden in town, but only Dakota Lil (Joan Caulfield) knows where and she refuses to disclose their whereabouts, having had enough tragedy with the deaths of her husband and little boy. York persuades her to tell but before they can be assembled the guns are stolen by Sy Elkins (Wendell Corey), a degenerate gambler who intends on selling them to the Sioux.

Set in Deadwood, South Dakota, shot on location in California.

8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, some with light uniform fading. Paper sleeve Near Fine, with annotations of actors names in manuscript ink.

Pitts 3338.

[Book #146731]