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The Guns of Fort Petticoat is a 1957 American Western film produced by Harry Joe Brown and Audie Murphy for Brown-Murphy 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.
The Guns of Fort Petticoat: Directed by George Marshall. With Audie Murphy, Kathryn Grant, Hope Emerson, Jeff Donnell. Union Army deserter, Lt. Hewitt, trains a rag tag band of all-female homesteaders to defend themselves against a Comanche tribe on the warpath.
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Texan and U.S. Cavalryman Lt. Frank Hewitt (Audie Murphy) deserts the army after Colorado Union soldiers carry out the deadly Sand Creek reservation...
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Nov 27, 2019 · The only other man at the mission runs away o save his scalp and ends up leading the Indians back to the mission. Surrounded and outnumbered, the defenders prepare for the final assault.. 💥 ...
The Guns of Fort Petticoat was set during the Civil War in Murphy's home state of Texas, but was actually shot at the Iverson Ranch in Chatsworth, California, and at the Old Tucson Studios in Tucson, Arizona, between April 16 - May 18, 1956.
Lt. Frank Hewitt absconds from the Union Army to warn fellow Texans that Indian attacks are inevitable due to a massacre at Sand Creek. What he finds is that all the men are away fighting in the Confederate Army so the homesteaders are mainly made up of women.
The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957) Mark Franklin August 6, 2017 1950s. When Col. Chivington launches the Sand Creek Massacre, Lt. Frank Hewitt (Audie Murphy) deserts, convinced the massacre will start an Indian war that will threaten his home-state of Texas.
Jeff Donnell Cast. Walter Doniger Screenplay. Ray Rennahan Cinematography. Mischa Bakaleinikoff Music. Critics reviews. During the American Civil War, Lt. Hewitt serves with the U.S. Cavalry. A group of Indians return to the reservation which they were not supposed to leave, so Col. Chivington orders the Sand Creek Massacre.
Synopsis by Sandra Brennan. In this western, a cavalryman disobeys his officer's command to massacre Indians at Sand Creek, goes AWOL and heads for his home in Texas where he wants to protect the women who will soon bear the brunt of the Indians' revenge.
