Santa Fe Trail
1940 · Movie · NR · 110 min · ★ 5.8 · 58% critics
After a brawl just before graduation, a group of young military officers are sent to a tense frontier post. There they get pulled into clashes over slavery, law, and loyalty while facing a dangerous uprising and a romantic rivalry.
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Details
- Years
- 1940
- Release date
- 1940-12-20
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 58/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 (63 votes)
About
You may enjoy this if you like old-school western adventures with romance, cavalry action, and a fast-moving historical-fiction feel similar to Dodge City or Virginia City; Not for you if major historical inaccuracies or dated politics will overshadow the fun.
Pros: brisk action scenes; strong central villain; lively old-Hollywood adventure | Cons: very loose history; uneven political framing; forced comic relief
Themes
- fight
- slavery
- fanatic
- betrayal
- gun battle
- west point
- santa fe trail
- abolitionist
- western expansion
- friends love same woman
- railroad construction
- fictionalized history
Cast & crew
Errol Flynn
as Jeb Stuart
Olivia de Havilland
as Kit Carson Holliday
Raymond Massey
as John Brown
Ronald Reagan
as George Custer
Alan Hale
as Tex Bell
William Lundigan
as Bob Holliday
Van Heflin
as Rader
Gene Reynolds
as Jason Brown
Henry O'Neill
as Cyrus Brody
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
as Windy Brody
Directed by Michael Curtiz