Santa Fe (1951)

Director:

Irving Pichel

Writers:

Louis Stevens (story)
James Vance Marshall (novel)

Release Date:

1 April 1951 (USA)

Genre:

Romance | Western

Tagline:

BEYOND FORBIDDEN FRONTIERS...Iron men forge a path of steel for "The Iron Horse!" (original poster)

Plot:

After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.

Plot Keywords:

Railroad | Civil War | Train | Indian Chief | Surveyor

Cast

Randolph Scott	...	Britt Canfield
Janis Carter	...	Judith Chandler
Jerome Courtland	...	Terry Canfield
Peter M. Thompson	...	Tom Canfield (as Peter Thompson)
John Archer	...	Clint Canfield
Warner Anderson	...	Dave Baxter
Roy Roberts	...	Cole Sanders
Billy House	...	Luke Plummer
Olin Howland	...	Railroad Fireman Dan Dugan (as Olin Howlin)
Allene Roberts	...	Ella Sue Canfield
Jock Mahoney	...	Crake, Sanders' Henchman (as Jock O'Mahoney)
Harry Cording	...	Moose Legrande
Sven Hugo Borg	...	'Swede' Swanstrom
Frank Ferguson	...	Marshal Bat Masterson
Irving Pichel	...	Harned

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

UK:U | West Germany:12 (nf) | Finland:K-12 | Spain:T | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:Approved (PCA #14622)

Filming Locations:

Columbia/Warner Bros. Ranch - 411 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank, California, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Between the Santa Fe and his brothers, he was a divided man.

I have a special liking for this film because I used to admire the Santa Fe beautiful passenger trains in the fifties and I made a fantastic trip at that time on the Santa Fe from New Mexico to Chicago. This is a colorful, entertaining film which tells the story of Randolph Scott and his brothers who were confederates and after the war is finished, get in a brawl with some nasty northern soldiers. To get away from a posse they jump into a train of the Santa Fe and Scott starts working in the building of the railroad. As his brothers become outlaws, he gets uncomfortable in his position at the railroad. Scott changes his westerns outfits quite often, I suppose because at that time the movie stills were published in a lot of magazines. A great moment is when an Indian chief complains that the train is making too much noise, so Scott allows him to drive the locomotive, to feel that he is in control. From "The Iron Horse" on, the building of the railroads was always a great theme for westerns and Santa Fe tell its story with plenty of good action scenes.