Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail

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  • Genre: Western
  • Release Date: 1940-12-20
  • Runtime: 110 minutes
  • : 5.6
  • Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
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5.6/10
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As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

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  • CinemaSerf

    6
    By CinemaSerf
    First thing to do before you watch this star-studded tale, is to forget anything you might actually know about the history of the start of the US Civil war - that way, you can sit back and enjoy this adventure film in the spirit Mike Curtiz intended. Errol Flynn is Jeb Stewart and Ronnie Reagan is George Custer who both pass out from West Point and are assigned the difficult task of helping to thwart the gun-runners and insurrectionists led by Raymond Massey as "John Brown" who is determined to assert his rather racially enlightened strategy to free all the slaves in the United States, and no talking about it. There's a bit of a love story between Flynn and a very tomboyish looking Olivia de Havilland ("Kit"); a bit of subterfuge from Van Heflin as "Rader"; some strong support from Alan Hale and a few good cameos from Ward Bond and Charles "Ming" Middleton but this rather episodic acton move belongs entirely to the Rasputin-esque Massey - to, more specifically to his eyes; those of a despotic maniac that even though his goals are laudable, make you mistrust everything about him. He is great. The narrative mixes fact and fiction as you might mix a cocktail, and like a cocktail sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't - but it's a decently paced yarn with a bit of a conscience and a flourishing ending that is still worth catching up with today.

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