Cavalry Scout
- IMDb link: 0043391
- IMDb rating: 6 (180 votes)
- Genres: Drama, Western
- Director: Lesley Selander
- Cast: Jim Davis, Rod Cameron, Audrey Long, James Millican and others
- Release date: 13 May 1951
- Release year: 1951
- Runtime: 78 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: 1870s, scout, cavalry, gatling gun, cavalry scout, u.s. cavalry, u.s. army, sitting bull, sioux tribe, sioux chief
Plot:
Kirby Frye, a former Confederate officer but now a Union Cavalry scout, is sent into Montana territory to locate and retrieve three Gatling Guns stolen from the U.S. Arsenal by outlaws believed to have taken them west to sell to the Soiux and Cheyenne. The trail leads him to Red Bluff where, aided by Claire Corville, he and the audience discover together and real quick like that Martin Gavin, a supposedly-honest operator of a freight line, has the guns and intends to exchange them to the Indians for furs.