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Director:
Charles Marquis Warren
Stars:
Joel McCrea,
Barbara Stanwyck,
Earl Holliman
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The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and the lad must start learning the hard lessons of working in a team if he wants to make it to San Diego. Written by
Jeremy Perkins <jwp@aber.ac.uk>
Ten Thousand Cattle Gone
(uncredited)
Traditional
Hummed and whistled by various cast members
Arranged by Frank Skinner for main title
and arranged by Milton Rosen in the score at end See more »
Barely a Western save in setting, as there's very little action apart from horse and cattle stampedes and a couple of scraps between two lads.Unusually, no woman features, save in the distant background and when McCrea pulls out a photograph of his girl-friend; the makers are to be congratulated on resisting the temptation to introduce some love interest.
The actors do well enough and there's some good scenery well photographed. The only thing that puzzled me was where the horse herd came from that the black stallion stampeded. It just seemed to appear, but I had a vague idea that it attached to the cattle drive, though this seems unlikely.
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Barely a Western save in setting, as there's very little action apart from horse and cattle stampedes and a couple of scraps between two lads.Unusually, no woman features, save in the distant background and when McCrea pulls out a photograph of his girl-friend; the makers are to be congratulated on resisting the temptation to introduce some love interest.
The actors do well enough and there's some good scenery well photographed. The only thing that puzzled me was where the horse herd came from that the black stallion stampeded. It just seemed to appear, but I had a vague idea that it attached to the cattle drive, though this seems unlikely.