Cattle Drive
Cattle Drive | |
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Directed by | Kurt Neumann |
Screenplay by | Lillie Hayward Jack Natteford |
Produced by | Aaron Rosenberg |
Starring | Joel McCrea Dean Stockwell Chill Wills |
Cinematography | Maury Gertsman |
Edited by | Danny B. Landres |
Production company | Universal Pictures |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Cattle Drive is a 1951 Technicolor Western film directed by Kurt Neumann starring Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell and Chill Wills. Much of the film was shot in the Death Valley National Park, California and Paria, Utah.
Plot
Chester Graham Jr. (Dean Stockwell), the spoiled young son of a wealthy railroad owner, gets lost in the middle of nowhere when he wanders away from a train during a water stop. He is found by a cowboy (Joel McCrea) who is part of a cattle drive. Lucky to be alive, the boy has to tag along with the cowboys. He learns the value of hard work, self-discipline and comradeship while working with the men on the trail to Santa Fe.
Influences
The basic story -- about a rich brat who gets lost in a dangerous place far from home, then learns character and values from the working men who rescue him -- echoes that of 1937's Oscar-winning film Captains Courageous, adapted from a novel by Rudyard Kipling.[1] The key difference is that "Cattle Drive" is set in a desert area and not at sea.
Cast
- Joel McCrea - Dan Matthews
- Dean Stockwell - Chester Graham Jr.
- Chill Wills - Dallas
- Leon Ames - Chester Graham Sr.
- Howard Petrie - Cap
- Bob Steele - Charlie Morgan
- Griff Barnett - Conductor O'Hara
- Lewis Martin - Winston
Production
Parts of the film were shot in Paria, Utah, and Death Valley.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Hanfling, Barrie (2016). Westerns and the Trail of Tradition: A Year-by-Year History, 1929-1962. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-7864-4500-4. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
- ^ D'Arc, James V. (2010). When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah (1st ed.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423605874.
External links
- Cattle Drive at IMDb
- Joel McCrea at IMDb