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15 September 1934 (USA)
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They Fought Their Way And Feared No Danger! See more »
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The trio of Belmet, Burch, and O'Meary are leading a wagon train west and Murdock is out to stop them...
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Fighting Caravans gets the B treatment
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(in credits order) (complete, awaiting verification) | Randolph Scott | ... | Clint Belmet |
 | Gail Patrick | ... | Nancy Wellington |
| Billy Lee | ... | Sonny Wellington |
| Monte Blue | ... | Kenneth Murdock |
| Raymond Hatton | ... | Jim Burch |
| Jan Duggan | ... | Abby Masters |
| Leila Bennett | ... | Hetty Masters |
| Olin Howland | ... | Bill O'Leary |
| Howard Wilson | ... | Permit Officer |
| Julian Madison | ... | Lester - Guard |
| Alfred Delcambre | ... | Ebe |
| Donald Gray | ... | Chauncey (as Eldred Tidbury) |
| Colin Tapley | ... | Mountaineer |
| J.P. McGowan | ... | Couch |
| James A. Marcus | ... | Jed |
| Helen Hunt | ... | Mrs. Jed |
| James B. 'Pop' Kenton | ... | 'Pop' Masters |
| John Marston | ... | Orator |
| Sam McDaniel | ... | Negro Coachman (as Sam McDaniels) |
| Michael Visaroff | ... | Russian |
| E. Alyn Warren | ... | Abner Mosley, the Factor |
| Lorraine Bridges | ... | Singer |
| Earl Covert | ... | Singer |
| The Guardsmen | ... | Singing Group (as The Singing Guardsmen) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Fern Emmett | ... | Settler (uncredited) |
| Harold Goodwin | ... | Nancy's brother (uncredited) |
| Lew Meehan | ... | Listener (uncredited) |
| Pauline Moore | ... | Young Lady (uncredited) |
| Frank Rice | ... | Settler (uncredited) |
 | Ann Sheridan | ... | Young Lady (uncredited) |
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| Charles Barton | |||
Writing credits | ||
| Zane Grey | (novel "Fighting Caravans") | |
| Jack Cunningham | screenplay and | |
| Carl A. Buss | adaptation and | |
| Charles Logue | adaptation | |
Produced by | |||
| Harold Hurley | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| John Leipold | (uncredited) | ||
Cinematography by | |||
| William C. Mellor | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Jack Dennis | |||
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Neil Wheeler | .... | assistant director (uncredited) | |
Other crew | |||
| Adolph Zukor | .... | presenter | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Paramount Pictures (1934) (USA) (theatrical)
- Favorite Films (1951) (USA) (theatrical) (retitled re-release)
- Dastar (1998) (UK) (VHS)
- Entertainment Distributing (1998) (USA) (video)
- Marathon Music & Video (1998) (USA) (VHS)
- Reel Media International (2004) (worldwide) (video)
- Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment (2006) (USA) (DVD)
- Reel Media International (2007) (worldwide) (all media) (non-theatrical)
- Pop Flix (????) (USA) (DVD) (on 'Randolph Scott Westerns' collection)
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56 min | USA:60 min (DVD)
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
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USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:Approved
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Referenced in Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (2000) (TV)See more »
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In 1931 Paramount filmed Zane Grey's Fighting Caravans and turned it into an A picture western with Gary Cooper. It was the mentality of the studio bosses back then, why waste good stock footage. So a shorter version of this same story was done three years later with Randolph Scott playing the leading role of Clint Belmet.
Having both versions, I could compare them side by side. Same footage involving the wagon train going west and of the Indian attack climax. Just juxtapose close-ups of the current cast and you got yourself another movie on the cheap.
Since this version is only 56 minutes it was part of Paramount's B unit and played second on double bills.
Like in the first Fighting Caravans, Wagon Wheels has one young scout and two old ones leading the wagon train west. Gail Patrick gets one of her first and only leads. Usually Patrick is cast as the other woman. Maybe her best know role was as Carole Lombard's sister in My Man Godfrey.
Gary Cooper was an A list star, but Randolph Scott was on the way up and would get to not quite the top of the heap soon. He acquits himself well here.
Great stuff for the Saturday matinée crowd.