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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Robert Buckner (original screenplay)
Release Date:
28 December 1940 (USA)
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Tagline:
A Magnficent Portrayal of a Thrilling Era ! more
Plot:
The story of Jeb Stuart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer and battles...
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American Civil War
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Battle
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John Brown
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Jeb Stuart
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Fire
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An Insidious Travesty
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Errol Flynn | ... | Jeb Stuart |
 | Olivia de Havilland | ... | Kit Carson Holliday |
 | Raymond Massey | ... | John Brown |
 | Ronald Reagan | ... | George Armstrong Custer |
| Alan Hale | ... | Tex Bell |
| William Lundigan | ... | Bob Holliday |
 | Van Heflin | ... | Carl Rader |
| Gene Reynolds | ... | Jason Brown |
| Henry O'Neill | ... | Cyrus K. Holliday |
| Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams | ... | Windy Brody |
| Alan Baxter | ... | Oliver Brown |
| John Litel | ... | Martin |
| Moroni Olsen | ... | Colonel Robert E. Lee |
| David Bruce | ... | Phil Sheridan |
| Hobart Cavanaugh | ... | Doyle |
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Runtime:
110 min
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Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Australia:G |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:U (re-rating) (1986) |
Iceland:12 |
USA:Approved (PCA #6559) |
Finland:K-16 |
Germany:16 |
Sweden:15
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Aptly enough, the movie made its world premiere in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Continuity: When Jeb Stuart escapes the hanging, he fires eight shots from the stolen six-shooter.
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Quotes:
Kit Carson Holliday:
Oh, Jeb, what does pride got to do with guns?
James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart: Kit, the two things kind of come together down South. You can't pry them apart. Not even with guns.
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James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart: Kit, the two things kind of come together down South. You can't pry them apart. Not even with guns.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (2000) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
No More Auction Block For Me
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I COULD call this "a typical rousing Hollywood actioner" - but I won't. This is an insidious movie that pollutes History even more than normal Hollywood fare. It had nothing to do with "The Santa Fe Trail", but dealt with abolitionist John Brown from Kansas to Harpers Ferry in the years before the Civil War, and the reaction of West Point officers to him. So what's wrong with it? It is nothing but pro-Slaveholder anti-black propaganda. 1. Atrocities by pro-slavery forces in Kansas were never depicted, just those by Brown. 2. Brown was never shown treating blacks with respect and as equals. As he always did. 3. Blacks were only depicted as shiftless, helpless stereotypes. 4. One third of Brown's fighters at Harpers Ferry were black - none were depicted in the movie. 5. The assault against Brown at Harpers was preposterous - about six times the size of the actual fight. 6. West Point cadets were shown as mostly pro-slavery, and abolitionist cadets were depicted as crackpots and the cause of the Civil War. 7. John Brown's famous and magnificent speech before the Court was not shown. 8. John Brown was denounced as a "traitor" - by the Robert E Lee character who would soon renounce his West Point oath and fight against the United States - UNlike many other Virginia officers. I could go on. But this movie should only be shown in a classroom as an example of propaganda and deceit.