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Release Date: 1957 Cast: Audie Murphy, Hope Emerson
Categories: Movies, Western, Action The Guns of Fort Petticoat is a 1957 Technicolor Western produced by Harry Joe Brown and Audie Murphy for Columbia Pictures. It was based on the 1955 short story "Petticoat Brigade" by Chester William Harrison (1913-1994) that he expanded into a novelization for the film's release. It was directed by George Marshall and filmed at the Iverson Movie Ranch and at Old Tucson. The working title of the film was Petticoat Brigade; screenwriter and television director Walter Doniger was originally set to have directed the film. The fictional story tells the tale of an Army deserter training a... MORE
The Guns of Fort Petticoat is a 1957 Technicolor Western produced by Harry Joe Brown and Audie Murphy for Columbia Pictures. It was based on the 1955 short story "Petticoat Brigade" by Chester William Harrison (1913-1994) that he expanded into a novelization for the film's release. It was directed by George Marshall and filmed at the Iverson Movie Ranch and at Old Tucson. The working title of the film was Petticoat Brigade; screenwriter and television director Walter Doniger was originally set to have directed the film. The fictional story tells the tale of an Army deserter training a disparate group of women to be Indian Fighters climaxing in a Battle of the Alamo type action.
In 1864 during the American Civil War, Texan Lt. Frank Hewitt is serving with the U.S. Cavalry in a Regular Army Regiment under Colonel John Chivington. On patrol, Hewitt meets a group of Indians who are unarmed and returning to the Sand Creek reservation they were not supposed to leave. When briefing Col. Chivington, the Colonel orders the Sand Creek Massacre to punish the Indians.
Hewitt not only disagrees with the punishment of the Indians, but fears they will use the attack as an excuse to unite and LESS
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