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GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Console best movie i've ever seen.

weezeralfalfa In "The Man From the Alamo", Glen Ford plays a man who is elected to try to ride through the Mexican lines surrounding The Alamo to try to warn a community that they should evacuate before the Mexicans overran them. He was too late to save these people, but he missed being one of the victims of the attack on the Alamo. The community he next landed in clearly thought of him as a coward for abandoning the Alamo. In the present film, Audie Murphy finds himself in a similar situation. When the little wagon train he was leading through Yaqui territory was threatened with attack, he galloped in search of the chief Aguila, whose son, Tigre, had been saved from death by Audie a short time ago. Audie hoped this would be his ticket to convincing the chief to call off an attack. Unfortunately, the chief was not impressed. Instead, he had Audie staked out in the sun, with the prospect of cutting off his eyelids in the next morning , so that the sun would blind him. Unfortunately, while he was so occupied, the wagon train was attacked, and all killed except for the 2 women, whom Audie had hidden in a cave. When he reached the nearby town of Borax, the people wanted to lynch him, because they had heard of the massacre, and blamed him for deserting his post. This sets that stage for the rest of the film, in which both the town people and Aguila want to kill Audie. Although Aguila refused to believe that a white man would save the life of his son, Tigre's mother believed it. After the braves left their camp, she cut the ropes tying him to the stakes. Audie's good deed toward Tigre would save his life again, when Sheriff Murchoree(Chill Wills) locked him in the town jail for safety against the lynch mob. Tigre recognized that this wasn't going to stop the mob for long. Thus, he descended from the skylight, and freed Audie, they escaping out the back door. But the mob wasn't far behind. They had a shooting match, in which Tigre was mortally wounded, and Audie barely escaped. His horse was shot in the leg, causing it to limp, so when he saw a bunch of horses on a ranch, he asked to borrow one. He was loaned an all-white one named Tumbleweed, which didn't look too promising on initial inspection. But, he would prove his worth several times in Audie's further attempts to escape the posse and an attack by Aguila. I will leave you to see the rest of the story. See it in color at YouTube. Filming took place at Death Valley, Red Rock Canyon, and Vasquez Rocks, all in southern CA.

Michael Morrison With lesser performers and a less-capable director, probably this would have been a lesser movie. But with the terribly under-rated Audie Murphy, the veteran and versatile character actor Chill Wills, the lovely Lori Nelson, and the later-in-his-life-wildly-popular Lee Van Cleef, among many others, "Tumbleweed" earns high praise. Oh, and the title character himself? No credit is given for the superlative horse actor. Which is a shame, especially considering how many movies have the performing horse's name above the title, even when he doesn't show as much talent as this one. This story is involved, although I figured out the bad guy early on. Still, even if you know pretty quickly, you will be on edge wondering how he finally gets caught and, more important, how the hero manages to clear his name -- IF either ever happens. "Tumbleweed" is a movie I never had heard of before seeing it at YouTube on 13 April 2016. That print is out of sync for much of the presentation, and another print is too dark to watch. Still, never mind: It's a good movie. I recommend it.

zardoz-13 Audie Murphy finds himself in desperate trouble in "Land Raiders" director Nathan Juran's exciting western "Tumbleweed" when he tangles with hostile Yaqui Indians and treacherous whites. Murphy gets himself mired deeper into danger to clear himself as this adventurous 79-minute oater winds down to its finale. What sets this Murphy horse opera apart is "Red Mountain" scenarist John Meredyth Lucas' audacious screenplay based on Kenneth Perkins' novel "Three Were Renegades." Appearances are not always what they appear; this serves the overarching theme of this entertaining dust-raiser. Added elements that bolster this horse opera are some bits of humor involving the eponymous animal and some mystery surrounding the development of the narrative.Initially, our resourceful hero displays benevolence when he comes to the aid of a wounded Yaqui brave in the desert. Apparently, an unknown white gunman shot the Yaqui in the left shoulder and left him for dead. Jim Harvey (Audie Murphy of "The Kid from Texas") digs a bullet out of Tigre (Eugene Iglesias of "Apache Rifles"), the son of Yaqui chieftain Aguila (Ralph Moody of "Reprisal!") who abhors whites with a passion. At one point, a hateful Tigre tries to stab Harvey, but our hero manages to deflect this futile effort. After saving Tigre's life, our hero accepts a job as a guide for a group of pioneers. At first, when he meets Harvey in the town of Mile High, wagon train master Seth Blanden (Ross Elliot of "Never So Few") thinks Harvey is too young to provide them with adequate guidance. Attractive Laura Saunders (Lori Nelson) is the sister-in-law traveling with relatives. She likes the sight of Harvey, but Seth's wife Sarah (Madge Meredith of "Trail Street") disapproves of a drifter like Harvey. Sarah wanted Laura to marry Seth's brother Lam (Russell Johnson of "Gilligan's Island") because he is a stable individual. Harvey does a good job as a guide until the Yaquis box them in and try to burn their wagons. Harvey sends the two women into hiding, and then he rides under a white flag of truce to parley with Aguila. As it turns out, Aguila doesn't believe that his son would befriend a white man. The Yaqui chief ties Jim down between two spears and promises to carve his eyelids so he can watch the sun burn out his vision at dawn. Tigre's mother (Belle Mitchell of "Soylent Green") lets Jim escape. Afterward, Jim catches a ride back into the town of Borax. He discovers that he is a persona non grata because the Yaquis scalped and killed the men, but the two women and a baby in the wagon train survived.Ironically, Sheriff Murchoree (Chill Wills of "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid") keeps the townspeople from lynching Harvey when he shows up in town and generates controversy with his unaccounted for presence. The citizens have a noose around Harvey's neck and they have Murchoree crowded, so he cannot get to Harvey until one of his deputies, Marv (Lee Van Cleef of "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"), armed with a Winchester intervenes, and Murchoree can extract his six-gun from his shoulder holster. Murchoree puts Harvey into protective custody. Later, during the night, Tigre breaks into the jail where Harvey is being held, stabs the guard that Murchoree left in charge, and the Yaqui explains that the guards were going to let the townspeople into lynch him. Not long afterward, they are pursued by the townspeople and Tigre takes a bullet and dies. Before the Yaqui dies, he informs Harvey that a white man had a hand into the massacre. Eventually, a posse pursues Harvey. Meantime, he finds himself afoot again when his horse goes lame. Initially, he tries to steal a horse from a rancher, Nick Buckley (Roy Roberts of "Kid Galahad"), but Buckley's ranch hand catches him before he can. Harvey meets Buckley and his wife Louella (K.T. Stevens of "Vice Squad") and explains his awful predicament. Buckley takes sympathy on him and loads him calls the decrepit looking horse called 'Tumbleweed.' An incredulous Harvey is surprised when the animal displays amazing mountain sense and enables him to elude the posse. At one point, when Harvey is about to die of thirst, 'Tumbleweed' scrapes a hole into the dirt that yields water. Murchoree catches up with Harvey, but he is dying from thirst, too, when our hero finds him. Strangely enough, Harvey wants to find Aguila because he is the only man who can clear him. The revelation as to the identity of the white man who worked with the Indians is a surprise. Our hero and the villain battle it out with their fists and the fight progresses from the desert floor up atop a mountain where the villain tries to crush Harvey with a rock. Lee Van Cleef has a bigger than usual role and he isn't a slimy villain like he was during his usual 1950s westerns. "Tumbleweed" qualifies not only as an above-average Audie Murphy oater but a welcome departure from his more straightforward routine sagebrushers.

Spikeopath Tumbleweed is directed by Nathan Juran and adapted to screenplay by John Meredyth Lucas from the novel "Three Were Renegades" written by Kenneth Perkins. It stars Audie Murphy, Chill Wills, Lori Nelson, Roy Roberts, Russell Johnson, Lee Van Cleef, K.T. Stevens and Madge Meredith. Music is by Joseph Gershenson and cinematography by Russell Metty. It's atypical Audie Murphy fare, which for his fans (of which I'm firmly one) is enough for a rollicking good time. Plot has Murphy as Jim Harvey, a Wagon Train leader who mistakenly gets called out for being a coward when the train he is leading is attacked by the Yaqui Indians, leaving all the men folk dead. Forced to evade lynch mobs and the law, he goes on the lam, armed with only his wits and an aging horse called Tumbleweed. What follows for the 80 minute run time is plenty of action and near scrapes, some barely concealed romantic yearnings, and of course heroics from both man and beast. The locations used for the story are gorgeous, as Death Valley and Vasquez Rocks form a mightily impressive back drop to the unfolding drama. While stunts and machismo are up to the requisite standard. Cast are fine, with Audie being Audie, Wills a gruff lawman and Cleef in loose cannon side-kick mode. The girls are mere tokens, but the beauty of Nelson and Meredith is breath taking. While costuming (Bill Thomas) is high end as well. A Technicolor treat for Murphy and B Western fans. 7/10