Cattle Drive (1951)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Kurt Neumann

Writers:

Lillie Hayward (written by)
Jack Natteford (written by)

Release Date:

8 August 1951 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Plot:

The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere...

Plot Keywords:

Cattle | Rustler | Animal In Title

Cast

Joel McCrea	...	Dan Mathews
Dean Stockwell	...	Chester Graham, Jr.
Chill Wills	...	Dallas
Leon Ames	...	Chester Graham Sr.
Henry Brandon	...	Jim Currie
Howard Petrie	...	Cap
Bob Steele	...	Charlie Morgan aka Careless
Griff Barnett	...	Conductor O'Hara

Runtime:

77 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

West Germany:6 (f) | USA:Approved (MPAA rating: certificate #15133) | UK:U | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl

Filming Locations:

Death Valley National Park, California, USA

Company:

Universal International Pictures (UI)

Trivia:

The photo of "Dan's Girl in Santa Fe" is that of Frances Dee, Joel McCrea's real-life wife.

Movie Connections:

Features Red Canyon (1949)

Fond Memory - Cattle Drive

I was about 11 years old when my parents took me to the Fox Theater in Inglewood, California to see this film. It just so happened that Dean Stockwell was appearing in person before the film and was answering questions from the audience. He was very shy and an adult male did most of the answering. I remember loving this film - perhaps because the star was present - as a western adventure involving a big locomotive. I remember the relationship between the father, looking for the boy, and the son as being more realistic than I had seen in films. By this age I was a veteran film-goer, seeing my first film, a Walt Disney film, at age of six. I gotta get a copy of this film to re-live it.