---
title: 'Tumbleweed (1953)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Nathan Juran'
released: '1953-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 79
genres:
  - 'Western'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/tumbleweed-1953'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046469/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Tumbleweed (1953)

1953 · 79 min · Western · United States


## Synopsis

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. 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Nathan Juran](https://cinepixo.com/people/nathan-juran)
- **Screenplay:** [John Meredyth Lucas](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-meredyth-lucas)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Henry Mancini](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-mancini)
- **Producer:** [Ross Hunter](https://cinepixo.com/people/ross-hunter)
- **Director of Photography:** [Russell Metty](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-metty)
- **Editor:** [Virgil W. Vogel](https://cinepixo.com/people/virgil-w-vogel)

## Cast

- [Lee Van Cleef](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-van-cleef)
- [Chill Wills](https://cinepixo.com/people/chill-wills)
- [K. T. Stevens](https://cinepixo.com/people/k-t-stevens)
- [Ross Elliott](https://cinepixo.com/people/ross-elliott)
- [Russell David Johnson](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-david-johnson)
- [Lyle Talbot](https://cinepixo.com/people/lyle-talbot)
- [Audie Murphy](https://cinepixo.com/people/audie-murphy)
- [Lori Nelson](https://cinepixo.com/people/lori-nelson)
- [Ralph Moody](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-moody)
- [King Donovan](https://cinepixo.com/people/king-donovan)
- [Roy Roberts](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-roberts)
- [Eddie Dew](https://cinepixo.com/people/eddie-dew)
- [Eugene Iglesias](https://cinepixo.com/people/eugene-iglesias)
- [Edmund Cobb](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-cobb)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/tumbleweed-1953
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