Tumbleweed

Year: 1953

Runtime: 79 mins

Language: English

Director: Nathan Juran

Western

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.

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