''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
Trucolor
Trucolor was a Color motion picture film, color motion picture process used and owned by the Consolidated Film Industries division of Republic Pictures. It was introduced as a replacement for Consolidated's own Magnacolor process.
Republic used T ...
in
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
. It was released by
Republic Pictures
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at the height of the ''
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier'' craze.
Plot
Set in 1775, during the
American War of Independence
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...
, the settlement of
Boonesborough Boonesborough or Boonesboro may refer to a place in the United States:
* Boonesboro, Iowa, now part of Boone, Iowa
*Boonesborough, Kentucky
*Boonesboro, Missouri
Boonesboro is a community in Howard County, Missouri, United States. It is located o ...
,
Kentucky
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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
*
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 ...
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
*
Fred Kohler Jr.
Fred Kohler Jr. (July 8, 1911 – January 7, 1993) was an American actor who performed in a number of Westerns such as '' The Pecos Kid'' and ''Toll of the Desert''. He played nearly 130 film and television roles between 1929 and 1978.
Kohler' ...
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"
See also
* List of films in the public domain in the United States
Notes
External links
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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
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