A Movie with similar plot? (SOLVED)
Does anyone recall a different movie but with strong plot similarity? I have sought information, unsuccessfully, about it for many years. In fact, it was the first question I asked of "Stump the Experts" in the 90's, prior to its newer incarnation as IMDb. Even the Board for Westerns yielded a dead end.
This is what I recollect:
1) I saw it in the early 50's, part of a double feature along with a Sci-Fi
movie
2) Technicolor
3) Set in the West, probably in the post Civil War era.
4) An evening view of Devil's Tower (Wyoming) and an implication that it was
occupied by the "baddies"
5) The "baddies" were sufficiently well-armed to cause a halt to progress of a
train, either initial construction or a scheduled run
6) Attempts to dislodge them from below failed because they were just beyond
range of the railroad's defenders...until:
7) A flatcar mounted cannon (military) was brought in to successfully shell the
hideout...at night. It was far, far bigger than any cannon used in Kansas
Pacific (1953); and it was integral to the flatcar, with heavy armor and riveted
metal plates. Caliber unknown, but obviously it had more range than anything
else in common use of that era.
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Any help, suggestions, or additional information would be appreciated.
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EDIT:
The film sought appears to be Drums in the Deep South (1951)
Setting was neither the West nor post Civil War...but rather the South
and during the Civil War. User Reviews for that film mention the
inappropriate implication of the Devil's Tower translocation to Georgia!
There has even been information revealed concerning the type of
military cannon likely implied.
Actually, I can't complain about memory for some of the details from
that long ago...I suspect I had considered it as just a double feature
filler, since I was more likely anxiously awaiting the Sci-Fi
co-feature that evening!
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