Tonka (film)

Tonka 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.

Cast

Sal Mineo as White Bull

Philip Carey as Captain Myles Keogh

Jerome Courtland as Lieutenant Henry Nowlan

Rafael Campos as Strong Bear

H.M. Wynant as Yellow Bear

Joy Page as Prairie Flower

Britt Lomond as General George Custer

Herbert Rudley as Captain Frederick Benteen

Sydney Smith as General Alfred Terry

John War Eagle as Chief Sitting Bull

Gregg Martell as Corporal Korn

Slim Pickens as Ace

Robert "Buzz" Henry as Lieutenant Crittenden

Eddie Little Sky as Spotted Tail