Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Directors:

Albert C. Gannaway
Ismael Rodríguez

Writers:

Tom Hubbard (screenplay) and
John Patrick (screenplay)

Release Date:

5 October 1956 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Biography | Western

Tagline:

FLAMING ACTION! ROARING EXCITEMENT! (original print ad - all caps)

Plot:

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. |

Plot Keywords:

Shirtless Male Bondage | Frontier | Boonesborough | Native American | Run The Gauntlet

Cast

Bruce Bennett	...	Daniel Boone
Lon Chaney Jr.	...	Blackfish (as Lon Chaney)
Faron Young	...	Faron Callaway
Kem Dibbs	...	Simon Girty
Damian O'Flynn	...	Andy Callaway
Jacqueline Evans	...	Rebecca Boone
Nancy Rodman	...	Susannah Boone
Freddy Fernández	...	Israel Boone (as Freddy Fernandez)
Carol Kelly	...	Jamima Boone
Eduardo Noriega	...	Squire Boone
Fred Kohler Jr.	...	Kenton
Gordon Mills	...	John Holder
Claudio Brook	...	James Boone (as Claude Brook)
Joe Ainley	...	Gen. Hamilton
Lee Morgan	...	Smitty

Runtime:

76 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Trucolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Mexico

Company:

Albert C. Gannaway Productions

Quotes:

Andy Callaway: Well, this is it - a few sacks of grain, a few bags of powder. It'll take months to get enough settlers and supplies down here to man this fort. Meanwhile we can't fight redcoats *and* redskins!
Daniel Boone: It's up to us to keep the peace.
Andy Callaway: With a tomahawk in your back?
Daniel Boone: It isn't how you die, it's what you live for.

Pioneers and Indians

This Daniel Boone adventure is an okay story about the brave frontiersman who leads a party of pioneers into the wilderness of Cumberland Gap and establishes the fort of Boonesborough in the middle of hostile Shawnee country. The obstacle to a peaceful settlement is Simon Girty, a renegade Frenchman who somehow is able to persuade several Indian nations and Chief Blackfish that Boone and company come not to live in peace but to steal Shawnee land and bring gun powder not to hunt game but to kill Indians who oppose white settlers heading westward. There are fine action scenes, including a grueling, brutal running of the gauntlet by Boone and a full-scale attack on the fort by the Shawnees just before the killer of Blackfish's two sons is revealed by fate. Bruce Bennett projects sincerity as Boone and Lon Chaney's Blackfish is fierce and warlike and a formidable foe to white settlement in Kentucky.