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Tonka is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lewis R. Foster released in USA on 25 december 1958 with Sal Mineo
Tonka (1958)
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Add to a movie listTonka is a 1958 Walt Disney Western adventure film about the US cavalry horse that survived the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Also released under the title A Horse Named Comanche, it stars Sal Mineo as a Sioux who fought there. It was filmed in Bend, Oregon, and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution.
The film is based on the book Comanche: Story of America's Most Heroic Horse by David Appel, which tells an imaginary story of the Indian and US Cavalry owners of the horse of the title.
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White, un jeune indien d'une tribu Sioux, cherche à se faire accepter parmi les adultes. Pour cela, il décide de capturer un cheval sauvage qu'il baptise Tonka, « grand ». Mais son oncle Yellow Bull profite de son âge pour s'approprier l'animal et le torturer. White Bull préfère alors rendre sa liberté au cheval qui rejoint sa horde, mais elle est capturée par l'armée américaine, le 7e de cavalerie dans le bataillon du lieutenant-colonel George Armstrong Custer.Actors
Sal Mineo
(White Bull)
Philip Carey
(Captain Myles Keogh)
H.M. Wynant
(Yellow Bull)
Jerome Courtland
(Lieutenant Henry Nowlan)
Joy Page
(Prairie Flower)
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