The Forty-Niners (1932)

MOVIEmeter

SEE RANK

Down 180,354 this week

59 min - Western - 28 October 1932 (USA)

(awaiting 5 votes)
Reviews: write review

O'Hara has been hired to lead a wagon train west. Instead he has led it off the trail to where it can be attacked by his Indian friends. But Tennessee Mathews is familiar with O'Hara's tactics and sends for the soldiers.

full cast and crew »

ad feedback

Edit

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Tom Tyler	...	'Tennessee' Matthews
	Betty Mack	...	Virginia Hawkins
	Al Bridge	...	Squaw' OHara
	Fern Emmett	...	Widow Spriggs
	Gordon De Main	...	Jed Hawkins (as Gordon Wood)
	Mildred Rogers	...	Lola
	Fred Ritter	...	Tanner
	Frank Ball	...	MacNab
	Florence Wells	...	Mrs. Tanner

Full cast and crew »

Edit

Storyline

"Tennessee" Matthews is a trader dealing in buffalo hides at his post situated on the North Platte River at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. There Jed Hawkins and his daughter Virginia are waiting for an escort for their wagon trail headed for California. "Widow" Melindy Spriggs is also with the train and has intentions of trapping Hawkins as her next husband, although his disposition to drink is very trying to her 'dry' ways. "Squaw" O'Hara, called such because he has a habit of taking up with Indian women (which may well be very politically incorrect now, but writer F. McGrew Willis did not name his villain such with an eye on the PC world of the future, and revisionist film history will not intrude here) is hired as the train's scout. O'Hara is one bad character indeed and his real vocation is misguiding wagon trains into traps so they can be looted... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Summary | Add Synopsis