Saddle Tramp (film)
Appearance
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Directed by | Hugo Fregonese |
Written by | Harold Shumate |
Produced by | Leonard Goldstein |
Starring | Joel McCrea Wanda Hendrix |
Cinematography | Charles P. Boyle |
Edited by | Frank Gross |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Universal Pictures |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Saddle Tramp is a 1950 American Western film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring Joel McCrea and Wanda Hendrix.[1] Its uncredited theme song was "The Cry of the Wild Goose" by Frankie Laine.[citation needed]
Plot
[edit]While travelling through Nevada enroute to California, "saddle tramp" Chuck Conner stays overnight with an old close friend. After the friend is killed falling from his horse, "Uncle Chuck" feels a duty to look after his four young boys, whose mother had died previously. He takes a job on a local ranch, but must conceal his new family from his employer. He also takes in a young woman who has run away from home, and she assists him to tackle a gang of cattle rustlers.[citation needed]
Cast
[edit]- Joel McCrea as Chuck Conner
- Wanda Hendrix as Della
- John Russell as Rocky
- John McIntire as Jess Higgins
- Jeanette Nolan as Ma Higgins
- Russell Simpson as Pop
- Ed Begley as Mr. August Hartnagle
- Jimmy Hunt as Robbie
- Orley Lindgren as Tommie
- Gordon Gebert as Johnnie
- Gregory Moffett as Butch
- Antonio Moreno as Martinez
- John Ridgely as Slim
- Walter Coy as Mr Phillips
- Joaquin Garay as Pancho
- Peter Leeds as Springer
- Michael Steele as Orvie
- Paul Picerni as Denver
References
[edit]- ^ Nott p.85-86
Bibliography
[edit]- Nott, Robert. Last of the Cowboy Heroes: The Westerns of Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy. McFarland, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7864-2261-6
External links
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Categories:
- 1950 films
- American historical films
- American Western (genre) films
- 1950s historical films
- 1950 Western (genre) films
- 1950s English-language films
- Films directed by Hugo Fregonese
- Universal Pictures films
- Films set in Nevada
- Films set in the 19th century
- 1950s American films
- 1950s Western (genre) film stubs
- 1950s American film stubs