Pony Soldier | |
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Directed by | Joseph M. Newman |
Produced by | Samuel G. Engel |
Written by | Garnett Weston (story Mounted Patrol) John C. Higgins |
Narrated by | Michael Rennie Tyrone Power |
Starring | Tyrone Power Robert Horton Penny Edwards Thomas Gomez Cameron Mitchell |
Music by | Alex North |
Cinematography | Harry Jackson |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date(s) | December 19, 1952 |
Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Pony Soldier is a 1952 Technicolor Northern Western set in Canada but filmed in Sedona, Arizona. It is based on a 1951 Saturday Evening Post story Mounted Patrol by Garnett Weston. It was retitled MacDonald of the Canadian Mounties in England and The Last Arrow in France and Spain.
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In 1876, the North-West Mounted Police send Constable Duncan MacDonald (Tyrone Power) and a blackmailed Blackfoot scout (Thomas Gomez) to get the Cree to sign Treaty 6 with The Crown. In addition to negotiating with the Cree, MacDonald of the Mounted rescues white hostages (Robert Horton and Penny Edwards) arrests a murderer, and adopts a Cree son (Anthony Earl Numkena).
Director Newman originally scouted locations in Montana but finding nothing he thought suitable, the film was made in Sedona, Arizona.[1] During the filming at Sedona, production was interrupted by snowstorms and the flash of a nuclear weapon tested 300 miles away in Nevada.[2] The producers recruited 450 Navajo to play Cree and used the services of technical advisor Chief Nipo T. Strongheart[3][4] (who also plays a Medicine Man in the film) to ensure a sympathetic portrayal. Strongheart had appeared in the film Braveheart with Tyrone Power Sr..
Included in the cast were Richard Boone, Frank deKova, and in his film debut, Anthony Earl Numkena.