A cowboy finds the spoiled son of a railroad magnate lost in the deserted hills and teaches him survival skills and hard work values.
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Title: Cattle Drive (1951)
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| 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 | |
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The spoiled young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and the lad must start learning the hard lessons of working in a team if he wants to make it to San Diego. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
29 December 1951 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
Der große Zug nach Santa Fe See more »Filming Locations:
Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)Color:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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(uncredited)
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Hummed and whistled by various cast members
Arranged by Frank Skinner for main title
and arranged by Milton Rosen in the score at end
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This was Dean Stockwell's last film as a child actor. His next appearance on the big screen was five years later. See more »Soundtracks
Ten Thousand Cattle Gone(uncredited)
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Arranged by Frank Skinner for main title
and arranged by Milton Rosen in the score at end
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Barely a Western save in setting, as there's very little action apart from horse and cattle stampedes and a couple of scraps between two lads.Unusually, no woman features, save in the distant background and when McCrea pulls out a photograph of his girl-friend; the makers are to be congratulated on resisting the temptation to introduce some love interest.
The actors do well enough and there's some good scenery well photographed. The only thing that puzzled me was where the horse herd came from that the black stallion stampeded. It just seemed to appear, but I had a vague idea that it attached to the cattle drive, though this seems unlikely.