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A couple weeks ago, Kino Lorber put out a blu-ray for Tomahawk, a 1951 western directed by genre specialist George Sherman. I like Tomahawk a lot, otherwise I wouldn’t be writing about it, but one of the reasons I’d like to talk about it is that Tomahawk is such a good example of a very particular 50s subgenre of generally progressive western that tries to show a sympathetic eye for Native American tribes during the west expansion years.
I mentioned Sherman, a fine filmmaker who did a lot of good westerns from the 30s through early 70s, but this genre was foremost the work of Universal, where he was usually employed during the 50s. Universal had a huge hit with James Stewart starrer Delmer Daves directed Broken Arrow in the previous year and located a market deficiency: people were watching westerns in record numbers in the decade after World War II and among this large audience there was a part of it willing to see movies between cavalry a
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