''Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer'' is a 1956 American Western film co-produced and directed by Albert C. Gannaway and Ismael Rodríguez and starring Bruce Bennett,

Lon Chaney Jr. Creighton Tull Chaney (February10, 1906 – July12, 1973), known by his stage name Lon Chaney Jr., was an American actor known for playing Larry Talbot in the film '' The Wolf Man'' (1941) and its various crossovers, Count Alucard (Dracu ...

and Faron Young. The film was shot in

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. It was released by

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at the height of the '' Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier'' craze.

Plot

Set in 1775, during the

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, the settlement of

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, is besieged by both hostile

Shawnee The Shawnee are an Algonquian-speaking indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. In the 17th century they lived in Pennsylvania, and in the 18th century they were in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, with some bands in Kentucky a ...

Indian tribes and the British. Frontiersman Daniel Boone and his family must fight for survival when overtures of peace fail and culminate in a frontal assault on the fort.

Cast

* Bruce Bennett as Daniel Boone *

as Blackfish * Faron Young as Faron Callaway * Kem Dibbs as Simon Girty *

Damian O'Flynn Damian O'Flynn (January 29, 1907 – August 8, 1982) was an Irish-American actor of film and television originally from Boston, Massachusetts. Biography O'Flynn made his screen debut in ''Marked Woman'' (1937), after which he was a freelance pl ...

as Andy Callaway * Jacqueline Evans as

Rebecca Boone Rebecca Ann Bryan Boone (January 9, 1739 – March 18, 1813) was an American pioneer and the wife of famed frontiersman Daniel Boone. No contemporary portrait of her exists, but people who knew her said that when she met her future ...

* Nancy Rodman as Susannah Boone * Freddy Fernández as Israel Boone * Carol Kelly as Jamima Boone * Eduardo Noriega as Squire Boone *

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as Kenton *

Gordon Mills Gordon William Mills (15 May 1935 – 29 July 1986) was a successful London-based music industry manager and songwriter. He was born in Madras, British India and grew up in Trealaw in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. During the 1960s and 1970s ...

as John Holder *

Claudio Brook Claudio Brook (born Claude Sydney Brook Marnat, 28 August 1927 – 18 October 1995) was a Mexican actor. Life Born in Mexico City, Brook had a prolific career, making around 100 film and television appearances in his 38 years as an actor. He ...

as James Boone *Joe Ainley as Gen. Hamilton *Lee Morgan as Smitty

Soundtrack

Albert C. Gannaway composed the music for three songs for the film, with lyrics by Hal Levy.''Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer'' Soundtrack
at IMDb * "Long Green Valley" (sung by Faron Young) * "Stand Firm in the Faith" * "Dan'l Boone"

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* * * 1956 films American biographical films 1956 Western (genre) films Republic Pictures films Films set in 1775 Films set in Kentucky American Revolutionary War films American Western (genre) films American historical adventure films 1950s historical adventure films Trucolor films 1950s English-language films Films directed by Albert C. Gannaway Films directed by Ismael Rodríguez 1950s American films {{British-Empire-stub

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