A Distant Trumpet

From Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Horgan's epic novel of Indians and Indian-fighters

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1964 / 117min.

Rating5.2

Genres

Western

Synopsis

In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.

Directors

Actors

Troy Donahue

Claude Akins

James Gregory

Lane Bradford

Russell Johnson

Suzanne Pleshette

Larry Ward

Kent Smith

William Reynolds

Diane McBain

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