The Battle


When I first started watching western movies on TV, I noted that a few movies used the same battle scene.

My list of those films includes: Pony Soldier (1952) Twentieth Century Fox, fictional date 1876, The Siege at Red River (1954) Panoramic Productions, fictional date 1865, The Gun That Won the West (1955) Columbia, fictional date 1860s or 1880s, and Pawnee (1957) Republic Pictures, fictional date unknown, And maybe others I have never seen.

This scene is also used in the "Massacre" episode of The Time Tunnel, that also uses scenes from She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957), among others.

For a long time I wondered what movie that great battle scene was originally from.

It is from Buffalo Bill (1944) Twentieth Century Fox, fictional date of the battle 1876, and by now one would not be surprised to hear that a scene in Buffalo Bill (1944), when hostile Indians burn a field and a cabin, is said to have come from Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) Twentieth Century Fox.

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