Tom Tyler should have been a huge western star but had very poor management and thus always played in B westerns. Tragic but he was a GREAT ACTOR and a great man! StocktonRob
please forgive me. i can't shut up about this movie. the scenery is to die for. the harmonica was authentic. the girl is beeutiful and it's just fantastic
Tom Tyler, who was born Vincent Markowski and was of Lithuanian ancestry, died just 18 short years after this movie was made of the autoimmune disease called scleroderma. Tyler was a two time national weight lifting champion and had a brief affair with Marlene Dietrich at the beginning of his Hollywood career. One of his most famous roles was the bad guy at the end of the classic western Stagecoach with John Wayne. Unfortunately Tyler made very little money as an actor due to the fact that all of his movies that he was the lead in were B movies where the pay was extremely low. Today Tyler would have been a multimillionaire and today his scleroderma could have been treated with modern medicine. Sometimes a person's karma isn't the best. StocktonRob
Yes he should have however he had health problems starting at about 35 years old. He had rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune disease of scleroderma. He was broke and very ill and went to live with his sister. He passed at 50 years old, buried in Detroit, very sad.
