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Santa Fe Trail

Name: Santa Fe Trail
Genre: Western
Released: 1940-12-20
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 5.8

★ 5,8 /10 (66 Votes)

1940 EN 110 min

Overview

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

Stream

Release date

20/12/1940

Votes

Popularity

2.3

Where the railroad and civilization ended, the Sante Fe Trail began!

Genres

Western

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

110 min

Errol Flynn

Jeb Stuart

Olivia de Havilland

Kit Carson Holliday

Raymond Massey

John Brown

Ronald Reagan

George Custer

Alan Hale

Tex Bell

William Lundigan

Bob Holliday

Van Heflin

Rader

Gene Reynolds

Jason Brown

Henry O'Neill

Cyrus Brody

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

Major Sumner

Joe Sawyer

Kitzmiller

Frank Wilcox

James Longstreet

Ward Bond

Townley

Russell Simpson

Shubel Morgan

Charles Middleton

Gentry

Erville Alderson

Jefferson Davis

Spencer Charters

Conductor

Susan Peters

Charlotte

William Marshall

George Pickett

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George Haywood

John Hood

Arthur Aylesworth

Abolitionist at Russell's House (uncredited)

Roy Barcroft

Engineer (uncredited)

Trevor Bardette

Agitator in Palmyra (uncredited)

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Edward Biby

Party Guest (uncredited)

Al Bridge

Palmyra Townsman (uncredited)

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Jess Lee Brooks

Doorman at Washington Party (uncredited)

Georgia Caine

Officer's Wife at Party (uncredited)

Lucia Carroll

Girl at Wedding (uncredited)

Eddy Chandler

Armory Guard (uncredited)

Lane Chandler

Adjutant (uncredited)

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Bud Cokes

Cadet (uncredited)

Mildred Coles

Girl at Wedding (uncredited)

Harry Cording

Workman in Delaware Crossing (uncredited)

Joseph Crehan

Officer at Washington Party (uncredited)

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Jack Deery

Party Guest (uncredited)

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Jack Deery

Preacher at Wedding (uncredited)

Jim Farley

Brewer, Armory Hostage (uncredited)

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Mildred Gover

Mammy (uncredited)

Mitzi Green

Girl at Wedding (uncredited)

Creighton Hale

Telegraph Operator (uncredited)

Henry Hall

Abolitionist at Russell's House (uncredited)

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Sam Harris

Party Guest (uncredited)

Theresa Harris

Maid (uncredited)

Edward Hearn

Abolitionist in Armory (uncredited)

Russell Hicks

Dr. J. Boyce Russell (uncredited)

Selmer Jackson

Officer Reading Names of Graduates (uncredited)

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Payne B. Johnson

Western Boy (uncredited)

Victor Kilian

Dispatch Rider (uncredited)

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Richard Kipling

Army Doctor Attending Jason (uncredited)

Wilfred Lucas

Weiner (uncredited)

Eric Mayne

Train Passenger (uncredited)

Frank Mayo

Engineer (uncredited)

Tom McGuire

Man with Surveyor (uncredited)

Lafe McKee

Minister (uncredited)

Robert McKenzie

Kansas Townsman (uncredited)

Mira McKinney

Survivor at Delaware Crossing (uncredited)

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John Meyer

Workman (uncredited)

Frank Mills

Train Passenger (uncredited)

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Edmund Mortimer

Extra in Washington Party (uncredited)

Jack Mower

Surveyor (uncredited)

Nestor Paiva

Abolitionist Noticing Army Horse Brand (uncredited)

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Bernice Pilot

Hannah (uncredited)

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Alex Proper

Townsman (uncredited)

Clinton Rosemond

Black Man on Train (uncredited)

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Napoleon Simpson

Samson (uncredited)

Walter Soderling

Abolitionist at Russell's House (uncredited)

Grace Stafford

Farmer's Wife (uncredited)

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Count Stefenelli

Train Passenger (uncredited)

Libby Taylor

Black Woman (uncredited)

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Ernestine Wade

Black Woman (uncredited)

Eddy Waller

Workman (uncredited)

Blackie Whiteford

Henchman (uncredited)

Ernest Whitman

Black Man in Barn (uncredited)

Maris Wrixon

Girl at Wedding (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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Errol, Ronnie and Olivia, directed by Curtiz. This is based around the story of one Jeb Stuart, a Southern born gent who would go on to become one of the South's greatest cavalrymen during the American Civil War. We follow his romance with sweetheart Kit Carson Holliday, his friendship with George Armstrong Custer, and onto his battles with abolitionist John Brown. Though it's mostly agreed these days that Santa Fe Trail has no great historical worth, it is however still a decent movie that boasts great drama, a sweet romance, and no little amount of action. Knowingly directed by the as…

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First thing to do before you watch this star-studded tale, is to forget anything you might actually know about the history of the start of the US Civil war - that way, you can sit back and enjoy this adventure film in the spirit Mike Curtiz intended. Errol Flynn is Jeb Stewart and Ronnie Reagan is George Custer who both pass out from West Point and are assigned the difficult task of helping to thwart the gun-runners and insurrectionists led by Raymond Massey as "John Brown" who is determined to assert his rather racially enlightened strategy to free all the slaves in the United States, and no …

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