Tumbleweed (film)

Tumbleweed
Directed byNathan Juran
Screenplay byJohn Meredyth Lucas
Based onstory "Three Were Renegades"
by Kenneth Perkins
Produced byRoss Hunter
StarringAudie Murphy
Lori Nelson
Chill Wills
CinematographyRussell Metty
Edited byVirgil W. Vogel
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Universal International Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • December 1953 (1953-12)
Running time
79 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Tumbleweed is a 1953 American Western film directed by Nathan Juran and starring Audie Murphy, Lori Nelson, and Chill Wills. The film is based on the story "Three Were Renegades" by Kenneth Perkins, originally published in the December 1938 issue of Blue Book. IMDb and other sources mistakenly call the film a remake of the 1948 film Relentless, which was based on a similarly named story, "Three Were Thoroughbreds," by Perkins (originally published in the June 1938 issue of Blue Book; published as a hardcover novel in 1939). The later story, "Three Were Renegades," was published as a sort-of sequel to the earlier story, "Three Were Thoroughbreds," and the plotlines of the two films mirror the plotlines of their respective source stories.