A Ticket to Tomahawk

A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950)

A cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him out of business. He uses everything from Indians to dancehall girls to try to thwart the plan. But the railroad workers, led by a female sharpshooter and an ambitious salesman, prove tough customers.

Data lansării
1950-05-19
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (18)
Durată
1 h 27 min
Genuri
Comedie, Western
Regizor
Richard Sale

Distribuție

Curiozități

  • Filmat în: Colorado

A Ticket to Tomahawk is a 1950 American Western film directed by Richard Sale and starring Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter. It was released by 20th Century Fox. Marilyn Monroe appears in one of her earliest roles.

Production

The steam locomotive shown in the film as Emma Sweeny was Rio Grande Southern #20, a three-foot-(0.91-meter)-gauge 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1899. To appear older, it was fitted with a false smokestack, headlight and various other parts. It was also given a colorful paint scheme.

For the scenes in which the locomotive is pulled by mules while off the track, a full-size wooden replica of RGS #20 was built, as the real locomotive would have been too heavy for the mules to pull. The mules pulled the model over parts of Molas Pass and on Reservoir Hill, which is now the site of Fort Lewis College.

In 2011, the wooden Emma Sweeny model was donated to the Durango Railroad Historical Society, which restored its Emma Sweeny appearance and placed it on display at Santa Rita Park in Durango, Colorado.

In 2020, Rio Grande Southern #20 returned to operation, having last run in 1951. It was restored over a 14-year period and made its public debut on August 1, 2020. It is now operational and resides at the Colorado Railroad Museum.

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