Branded (1950)

Director:

Rudolph Maté

Writers:

Max Brand (novel)
Sydney Boehm (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

November 1950 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

LADD as you like him in an Action-Packed Adventure!

Plot:

Twenty-five years ago the Lavery baby was kidnapped. Bad guy Leffingwell gets Choya to impersonate the son to gain the Lavery estate...

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Cast

Alan Ladd	...	Choya
Mona Freeman	...	Ruth Lavery
Charles Bickford	...	Mr. Lavery
Robert Keith	...	T. Jefferson Leffingwell
Joseph Calleia	...	Rubriz
Peter Hansen	...	Tonio
Selena Royle	...	Mrs. Lavery
Tom Tully	...	Ransom
John Berkes	...	Tattoo
Milburn Stone	...	Dawson
Martin Garralaga	...	Hernandez
Edward Clark	...	Dad Travis
John Butler	...	Spig
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Salvador Baguez	...	Roberto
Jimmie Dundee	...	Link
Len Hendry	...	Man
Frank McCarroll	...	Burly Man
Edward Peil Sr.	...	Tully
Olan Soule	...	Bank Clerk

Runtime:

104 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Arizona, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Quotes:

Rubriz: So what do they call you?
Choya: Choya.
Rubriz: Choya. It is a name I have heard. Not too often. Not with the biggest reputation. Small things with a gun.
Choya: Big enough that the Rangers want to do a little hanging.
Rubriz: Me they wish to hang a thousand times.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Wild Iris (2001) (TV)

good story, colorful, and a lot of action.

At the beginning of this movie someone asks Ladd if he has any friends, he answers "my guns" and if he has any kinfolk to which he replies "my horse". He gets involved in a plot, impersonating the kidnapped son of a rancher who was missing since he was five. However, he falls in love with Mona Freeman who was supposed to be his sister. This was an unusual role for Ladd to play, and it adds a lot to the film, because you don't quite know what to expect from him. There is here everything you can ask from a good western: an interesting story, colorful, and a lot of action. It was the first western directed by Rudolph Matte. I saw Branded when it was released in the fifties ,with crowded matinées. I enjoyed it and still enjoyed it when I saw it recently.