GenreWestern, Action, Romance Story byWill Cook CountryUnited States
Release dateOctober 5, 1956 (1956-10-05) Based onFrontier Feud
by Will Cook WriterWill Cook (novel), John C. Higgins (screenplay), Don Martin (screenplay) CastTony Martin (Linus Quincannon), Peggie Castle (Maylene Mason), John Bromfield (Lt. Burke), John Smith (Lt. Phil Hostedder), Ron Randell (Capt. Bell), John Doucette (Sgt. Calvin) Similar moviesRelated Lesley Selander movies
Linus Quincannon (Tony Martin) quits the U.S. Army in protest at the slaughter of Native Americans. He becomes a frontier scout, and is sent on an expedition to look into the disappearance of a cargo of munitions. Hes joined by the lovely Maylene (Peggie Castle), who wants to find out if her brother died in an attack on a faraway fort. In a savage environment of hostile American Indians and renegade soldiers, Quincannon searches for the truth, and Maylene falls in love with him.
Quincannon, Frontier Scout is a 1956 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and written by John C. Higgins and Don Martin. The film stars Tony Martin, Peggie Castle, John Bromfield, John Smith and Ron Randell. The film was released on October 5, 1956, by United Artists.
A young woman hires a frontier scout to help her discover if her brother died in an Indian attack on a remote fort.