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Santa Fe Trail (1940)

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Release Date: Jan 1, 1940 Wide

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Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a simplistic retelling of the John Brown legend, with Raymond Massey playing the famed abolitionist. The events leading up to the bloody confrontation between Brown and the US Army at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, are treated in a painstakingly even-handed fashion: Brown's desire to free the slaves is "right" but his methods are "wrong." Whenever the leading characters are asked

Unrated, 1 hr. 50 min.

Western, Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance, Classics

Directed By: Michael Curtiz

Written By: Robert Buckner

In Theaters: Jan 1, 1940 Wide

On DVD: Feb 10, 1999

Cast

Errol Flynn
Jeb Stuart
Olivia de Havilland
Kit Carson Halliday
Raymond Massey
John Brown
Ronald Reagan
George Armstrong Custer
Alan Hale
Tex Bell
Van Heflin
Rader
William Lundigan
Bob Holliday
Ward Bond
Townley
Gene Reynolds
Jason Brown
Henry O'Neill
Cyrus Holliday
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Windy Brody
Alan Baxter
Oliver Brown
John Litel
Martin
Moroni Olsen
Robert E. Lee
David Bruce
Phil Sheridan
Hobart Cavanaugh
Barber Doyle
Charles D. Brown
Maj. Sumner
Joe Sawyer
Kitzmiller
Frank Wilcox
James Longstreet
Russell Simpson
Shoubel Morgan
Charles B. Middleton
Gentry
Erville Alderson
Jefferson Davis
Spencer Charters
Conductor
Suzanne Carnahan
Charlotte
William Marshall
George Pickett
George Haywood
John Hood
Luis Alberni
Arthur Ayleswofth
Roy Barcroft
Trevor Bardette
Al Bridge
Jess Lee Brooks
Doorman
Georgia Caine
Officer's Wife
Lucia Carroll
Eddy Chandler
Lane Chandler
Adjutant
Cliff Clark
Instructor
Edmund Cobb
Mildred Coles
Girl
Harry Cording
Joseph Crehan
Rev. Neal Dodd
James Farley
Mildred Gover
Woman
Mitzi Green
Creighton Hale
Telegraph Operator
Theresa Harris
Maid
Edward Hearn
Guard
Louis Jean Heydt
Farmer
Russell Hicks
J. Boyce Russell
William Hopper
Officer
Selmar Jackson
Victor Kilian
Dispatch Rider
Wilfred Lucas
Weiner
Frank Mayo
Bit
Lafe [Lafayette] McKee
Minister
Mira McKinney
Woman
Jack Mower
Surveyor
Nestor Paiva
Agitator
Edward Peil Sr.
Susan Peters
Charlotte Davis
Bernice Pilot
Addison Richards
Sheriff
Clinton Rosemond
Walter Soderling
Grace Stafford
Farmer's Wife
Harry Strang
Sergeant
Libby Taylor
Emmett Vogan
Lieutenant
Eddy Waller
Man
Maris Wrixon
Henry Hall
Abolitionist
Richard Kipling
Army Doctor
Napoleon Simpson
Samson

Critic Reviews for Santa Fe Trail

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Rousing John Brown story is really worth it with Reagan and Flynn.

October 14, 2005 Comment

Steve Crum

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Revels in its inaccuracies.

April 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

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Semi fictional account of Bleeding Kansas and the pursuit of John Brown is skilled filmmaking but useless as any kind of historical document. Still for fans of Flynn and the Warner stock company an enjoyable enterprise. Olivia's part is negilible, as far as her films with Errol go she's seen to much better advantage in Dodge City.

November 23, 2010

jay nixon

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along w/ the always magnetic flynn and de havilland pairing, and costarring an unforgettable ex-president, this curious pre-ww2 piece about the pre-civil war (or "the wo-ah between the states!" as granny clampett used to quip) days is curiously and definitively southern in politics, altho that in no way detracts from

April 24, 2008

moon rivers

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