Tonka poster

Movie · 1958

Tonka

Released 25 December 1958 More from 1958 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Young Indian brave White Bull captures and tames a wild stallion and names him Tonka. But when White Bull's cruel cousin claims Tonka for his own and mistreats the horse, White Bull sets him free. Tonka finally finds a home with Capt. Keogh and the 7th Calvary, and in 1876, rides into the Battle of Little Big Horn with General Armstrong Custer, becoming its only survivor.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Herbert Rudley
as Captain Benteen
48
Slim Pickens
as Ace
39
Philip Carey
as Captain Myles Keogh
33
Jerome Courtland
as Lieutenant Henry Nowlan
31
H.M. Wynant
as Yellow Bull
31
Robert "Buzz" Henry
as Lieutenant Crittenden (as Robert Buzz Henry)
27
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
21years between the oldest and youngest billed
48Herbert Rudley — oldest on the call sheet
27Robert "Buzz" Henry — youngest billed
35average age of the credited cast
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