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Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956)

1956 · Feature film · 76 min · dir. Ismael Rodríguez

Thrill to the daring exploits of the bold pioneer who blazed the Wilderness Road...and had to fight his Red brother to bring peace to the new frontier!

  • Drama
  • Action
  • Western

Synopsis

Daniel Boone leads settlers into Kentucky, but must battle Shawnee Indians who have been persuaded by a French renegade that Boone and the settlers are there to kill them and steal their land.

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Details

Director
Ismael Rodríguez
Writer
Tom Hubbard
Studio
Albert C. Gannaway Productions
Released
1956-10-05
Running time
76 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★ · watch it · flickfdude · 2008-03-13

Boone his family and that history with the Indians the colonists, the Big Chief, the British and the guns a'blazin, in color.

★★★ · unfinished movie · turretman1st · 2008-02-11

movie missing last quarter of film but otherwise a very good showing some historical inaqruacies but otherwise good lon chani's acting interesting

★★ · A strange mix of genres · Dark Moon · 2011-05-12

Adventure, biography, western...and a musical, too? Settlers (instead of cowboys) and very stereotypical "ugh, paleface speak with forked tongue," war-whooping Amerindians, which you know you are going to get right from the start with the opening "tribal" music with tom-toms beating that was always used as a signature tune in Hollywood films whenever the Indians show up. But the strangest part is the musical numbers, performed in the fort while an attack is anticipated, or in a wagon train just before they are ambushed by Indians. It's the first movie I've ever seen where they stage…

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