A Ticket to Tomahawk

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A Ticket to Tomahawk is a 1950 American Western comedy film best known for its lighthearted take on frontier railroad expansion and an early screen appearance by Marilyn Monroe.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film
basedOn story by Mary Loos
cinematographyBy Harry Jackson
colorProcess Technicolor
countryOfOrigin United States
director Richard Sale
distributionFormat theatrical release
distributor 20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
linked to: 20th Century Fox
editedBy J. Watson Webb Jr.
era Golden Age of Hollywood
featuresActor Marilyn Monroe
filmingLocation Durango, Colorado
linked to: Durango

Silverton, Colorado
linked to: Silverton
format Technicolor
genre Western film
comedy film
hasCharacter Crispin Emmett
Dakota
Johnny Behind-the-Eight-Ball
Kit Dodge Jr.
Terence Sweeny
hasRailroad Tomahawk and Western Railroad
leadCharacterOccupation showman
leadCharacterRelation Kit Dodge Jr. is the granddaughter of U.S. Marshal Kit Dodge Sr.
mainTheme frontier railroad expansion
MarilynMonroeRole Clara
medium feature film
musicBy David Buttolph
notableFor early screen appearance by Marilyn Monroe
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A showman and a young woman help ensure a new railroad line reaches Tomahawk, Colorado, despite sabotage attempts.
producer Robert Bassler
productionCompany 20th Century Fox
releaseDate 1950-02-23
releaseYear 1950
runtimeMinutes 89
screenwriter Mary Loos
Richard Sale
setInLocation Colorado
setInYear 1876
stars Anne Baxter
Charles Kemper
Dan Dailey
Rory Calhoun
Walter Brennan
timePeriodDepicted Old West

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Richard Sale notableWork A Ticket to Tomahawk
Richard Sale directed A Ticket to Tomahawk