History Film / TallTale

* DropTheHammer: John Henry wields his sledgehammer in combat just as effectively as he drives steel with it.

* CoolGuns: J.P. Stiles uses a pair of Mauser C96s, in keeping with his representing the advance of modernity upon the untamed west.

''Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill'' is 1995 movie from Creator/WaltDisneyPictures that features Creator/NickStahl as a young boy in the late 1800s who meets {{folk hero}}es Pecos Bill, Myth/PaulBunyan, and John Henry.

''Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill'' is a movie produced by Disney in the early nineties. It features Creator/NickStahl as a young boy in the late 1800s who meets {{folk hero}}es Pecos Bill, Myth/PaulBunyan, and John Henry.

* AnAxeToGrind: Unsurprisingly, Paul Bunyan favours a woodcutter's axe.

* ShutUpHannibal: Daniel gives this to Style when he's poised to knock down the last pillar holding up the train tunnel:

After his father is shot for refusing to sell the deed to his land in Paradise Valley to an evil coal-mining magnate, Daniel Hackett (Stahl) goes on the run trying to keep the deed from falling into the mining company's hands. He is saved from two outlaws by badass cowboy Pecos Bill (Creator/PatrickSwayze). After explaining the situation, Pecos offers to help Daniel, but not before seeking out the help of his old friend, legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan (Creator/OliverPlatt). The trio heads to [[HilariousInHindsight Liberty City]], where they encounter John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown), the steel-driving man. The group continues to battle their way back to Paradise Valley against the mining company's hired guns. All the way, Daniel learns about courage and what it means to be a real man.

* BadAssBoast: Pecos' introductory (and parting) words. The latter is said while he's ''[[CrazyAwesome lassoing a tornado]].''

''Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill'' is a movie produced by Disney in the early nineties. It features Nick Stahl as a young boy in the late 1800s who meets {{folk hero}}es Pecos Bill, Myth/PaulBunyan, and John Henry.

After his father is shot for refusing to sell the deed to his land in Paradise Valley to an evil coal-mining magnate, Daniel Hackett (Stahl) goes on the run trying to keep the deed from falling into the mining company's hands. He is saved from two outlaws by badass cowboy Pecos Bill (Creator/PatrickSwayze). After explaining the situation, Pecos offers to help Daniel, but not before seeking out the help of his old friend, legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan (OliverPlatt). The trio heads to [[HilariousInHindsight Liberty City]], where they encounter John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown), the steel-driving man. The group continues to battle their way back to Paradise Valley against the mining company's hired guns. All the way, Daniel learns about courage and what it means to be a real man.

* BreakoutRole: For Nick Stahl.

After his father is shot for refusing to sell the deed to his land in Paradise Valley to an evil coal-mining magnate, Daniel Hackett (Stahl) goes on the run trying to keep the deed from falling into the mining company's hands. He is saved from two outlaws by badass cowboy Pecos Bill (Creator/PatrickSwayze). After explaining the situation, Pecos offers to help Daniel, but not before seeking out the help of his old friend, legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan (OliverPlatt). The trio heads to [[HilariousInHindsight Liberty City]], where they encounter John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown), the steel-driving man. The group continues to battle there way back to Paradise Valley against the mining company's hired guns. All the way, Daniel learns about courage and what it means to be a real man.

* AnAxeToGrind: Unsurprisingly, Paul Bunyan favours a woodcutter's axe.

* AnAxeToGrind: True to his legend and his lumberjack origins, Paul Bunyan's WeaponOfChoice is his mighty axe.

* GunsAkimbo: Pecos Bill carries a pair of Merwin Hulbert revolvers which he usually dual wields.

* CoolTrain: Daniel Hackett has a magnificently baroque creation as his BaseOnWheels.