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Overview

User Rating:
7.2/10   1,388 votes
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Director:
Michael Curtiz
Writer:
Robert Buckner (original screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
8 April 1939 (USA) more
Genre:
Romance | Western more
Tagline:
It's Errol Flynn In His Greatest Role . . . A picture for every red-blooded son and daughter of the stars and stripes ! more
Plot:
Dodge City. A wide-open cattle town run by Jeff Surrett. Even going on a children's Sunday outing is not a safe thing to do... more | add synopsis
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NewsDesk:
Saddle Up, Swashbuckler
 (From New York Post. 26 August 2008, 1:16 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
Dodge City-Don't Dodge this Film ***1/2 more
US TV Schedule:
Thur. July 910:30 PMTCM   

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Errol Flynn ... Wade Hatton

Olivia de Havilland ... Abbie Irving

Ann Sheridan ... Ruby Gilman
Bruce Cabot ... Jeff Surrett
Frank McHugh ... Joe Clemens
Alan Hale ... Rusty Hart
John Litel ... Matt Cole
Henry Travers ... Dr. Irving
Henry O'Neill ... Col. Dodge
Victor Jory ... Yancey
William Lundigan ... Lee Irving
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams ... Tex Baird
Bobs Watson ... Harry Cole
Gloria Holden ... Mrs. Cole
Douglas Fowley ... Munger
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Additional Details

Runtime:
104 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:PG | West Germany:12 (nf) | Norway:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (re-rating) (1989) | USA:Approved (PCA #4980)
Filming Locations:
Calabasas, California, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The man Errol Flynn throws through the window of the barbershop was none other than his pal and long-time drinking companion, stuntman Buster Wiles. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The Matt Cole's tombstone reads "Died June 6, 1875". Afterward, the sheriff's notices, published by Dodge City Star, read "July 1, 1872". more
Quotes:
[they're looking at the buffalo herd]
Rusty Hart: Lucky devils: nothin' to do but eat and sleep.
Tex Baird: That's right, hard head. The only difference between you and them is a pair of horns.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Dodge City: Go West, Errol Flynn (2005) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Little Brown Jug more

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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Dodge City-Don't Dodge this Film ***1/2, 3 April 2006
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Author: edwagreen from United States

Errol Flynn's British accent was showing big-time in this 1939 film but he made the most of it.

This is an exciting film dealing with western expansion following the Civil War. Michael Curtiz's expert directing along with a strong cast and great story make for one interesting film.

We have Bruce Cabot as usual playing a villain. He will purchase cattle but will kill the seller so as to avoid paying. The bodies begin to mount.

After a tragedy befalls a child whose father had been killed by the Cabot character, Flynn, a cattle dealer, decides to clean up the lawless town.

Earlier, we meet Olivia De Havilland with her irresponsible, reckless brother, played by a very young William Lundigan. When his drunken shooting causes a cattle stampede with death (including his own) and destruction ensuing, his sister (Olivia) despises Hatton (Flynn) for firing the shot that ultimately killed her brother.

Ann Sheridan plays a dance hall queen who will cover up for the brutal Cabot. Miss Sheridan's part is wasted here. She has little dialogue but does light up the screen by her singing and dancing.

As Flynn begins to clean up Dodge City, the arrests and shootings mount up to an exciting climax. A bar room brawl is memorably staged in the film.

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