Tumbleweed (1953) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1953 · 79 mins · English

Directed by

Nathan Juran

Starring

Lee Van Cleef, Roy Roberts, Chill Wills, King Donovan, Harry Harvey, K.T. Stevens

Jim Harvey is hired to guard a small wagon train west. After an Indian ambush, he leaves the group to negotiate with chief Aguila, claiming he saved the chief’s son. Captured, the train is wiped out except two sisters. Harvey escapes, is nearly hanged as a deserter, then joins a posse. A second Indian attack is defeated, and a dying Aguila reveals the white mastermind behind the first raid as the culprit rides up.