Tomahawk

Colorful Universal Western
TOMAHAWK is one of a number of solid little colorful Universal Westerns produced in the early 1950s. With a good cast, including Van Helfin, Yvonne De Carlo, Preston Foster, Jack Oakie, and Susan Cabot, it reprises the popular Cowboys/Cavalry vs. Indians theme, with a favorable treatment of the Indians and references to "Red Cloud's War" of the later 1860s. Like many such films of the period, TOMAHAWK is not going to be found in any "top ten" lists; but it does provide loads of excitement, action, and enjoyment to Western fans. The color Technicolot print is vivid and very good for this DVD-R issue. No add ons, but that's okay. Recommended--and let's hope Universal will release more of these little gems!

Great indians and soldiers movie
First of all Tomahawk ( Universal Series ) is high quality picture and sound. And the film is truly a great indians and soldiers story like we saw them when we were kids on sundays and played soldiers and indians all the way home from the theater. Van Heflin and Yvonne Carlo are very good of course and Alex Nicol is a brilliant cool sadistic villain. Why weren't he in many more pistures than he was?The plot is built on real historic events namely the Fetterman massacre, a disaster for the US Cavalry ten years before the battle on Little Big Horn. The plot follows the real happenings only loosely but that's okay. The best thing though is that the sioux indians are so fantastic authentic. These are not some Puerto Ricians with stupid wigs, these are like taken out of a history book or out of a John Ford film. This fact creates atmosphere and lots of thrilling camera work.

Tomahawk
A good release accurately depicted of the famous character Jim Bridger the mountain man who was quiet, reserved, yet strong in his beliefs

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