Quincannon, Frontier Scout (1956)
A New TONY MARTIN Blasts The Screen!
A young woman hires a frontier scout to help her discover if her brother died in an Indian attack on a remote fort.
- Date of release
- 1956-05-01
- TMDB
- 5.2 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Action, Western
- Director
- Lesley Selander
Casting
- Tony Martin — Linus Quincannon
- Peggie Castle — Maylene Mason
- John Bromfield — Lt. Burke
- Ron Randell — Capt. Bell
- John Smith — Lt. Phil Hostedder
- John Doucette — Sgt. Calvin
- Morris Ankrum — Col. Harry Conover
- Peter Mamakos — Blackfoot Sam
- Edmund Hashim — Iron Wolf
- Tom London — Livery Stableman (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Quincannon, Frontier Scout is a 1956 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and written by John C. Higgins and Don Martin. The film stars Tony Martin, Peggie Castle, John Bromfield, John Smith and Ron Randell. The film was released in May 1956, by United Artists.
Production
The script was based on a 1954 novel by Will Cook, called Frontier Feud. It was his first book. Film rights were bought by Bel Air Productions who signed Tony Martin to play the lead. It was Martin's first non musical lead role.
Parts of the film were shot in Kanab Canyon in Utah, as well as in Pipe Springs, Arizona. (The same producers then filmed The Girl in Black Stockings in that area.)
Filing started 11 August 1955 under the title Frontier Scout.
By December 1955 filming had ended and the same producers announce Martin would appear in Bandit in Black but this film was not made.
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