Fighting Man of the Plains (1949)

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  • FIGHTING MEN OF THE PLAINS


    DIRECTED BY EDWIN L, MARIN
    NAT HOLT PRODUCTIONS
    TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION



    INFORMATION FROM IMDb


    Plot Summary
    In August, 1863, Jim Dancer, searching for the killer of his brother,
    rides with Quantrell's raiders against Lawrence, Kansas. Yancey,
    one of the guerrillas most responsible for the band's bad name and reputation,
    accosts Evelyn Slocom. Yancey tell Dancer that Evelyn's father is the man who killed Dancer's brother,
    and Dancer takes revenge by killing him.
    But the man he is searching for is really the dead mans brother, Bert Slocum.
    When the Civil War ends in 1865, Dancer becomes a fugitive, hunted by Slocum and George Cummings,
    a detective for the Pleasanton Agency.
    Cummings finally catches Dancer, and it is only then that Dancer learns he killed the wrong man.
    While crossing the river on a makeshift ferry, Cummings is accidentally killed.
    When they are found, Dancer introduces himself as Cummings, saying the dead man was Jim Dancer.
    As Cummings, Dancer becomes a track-worker at Lanyard, Kansas.
    While the town is celebrating the arrival of the first cattle-drive herd from Texas,
    one ...
    Written by Les Adams


    Cast
    Randolph Scott ... Jim Dancer
    Bill Williams ... Johnny Tancred
    Victor Jory ... Dave Oldham
    Jane Nigh ... Florence Peel
    Douglas Kennedy ... Ken Vedder
    Joan Taylor ... Evelyn Slocum
    Berry Kroeger ... Cliff Bailey
    Rhys Williams ... Chandler Leach
    Barry Kelley ... Slocum
    James Todd ... Hobson
    Paul Fix ... Yancey
    James Millican ... Cummings
    Burk Symon ... Meeker
    Dale Robertson ... Jesse James
    Herbert Rawlinson ... Lawyer
    J. Farrell MacDonald ... Partridge
    Harry Cheshire ... Lanyard
    James Griffith ... Quantrell
    Charles Anthony Hughes ... Kerrigan (as Tony Hughes)
    John Hamilton ... Currier
    John Halloran ... Harmer
    Cliff Clark ... Travers
    Anthony Jochim ... Holz
    James Harrison ... Slattery
    Matt Willis ... Ferryman
    and many more...


    Directed
    Edwin L. Marin


    Writing Credits
    Frank Gruber ... (screenplay) (novel)


    Produced
    Nat Holt ... producer
    Harry Howard ... associate producer


    Music
    Paul Sawtell


    Cinematography
    Fred Jackman Jr. ... director of photography


    Trivia
    Re-release prints were struck in black-and-white.


    Film debut of Joan Taylor,


    James Millican plays a private detective who arrests Randolph Scott,
    who is playing a former member of Quantrell's Raiders.
    In The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953), Millican plays Quantrill and once again,
    Scott plays one of his former Raiders.


    Crazy Credits
    Opening credits prologue:
    The vast plains of the American West proved a barrier so formidable
    that the westward march of civilization faltered before it for more than a decade.
    Yet Civilization must move on and the Great Plains were finally conquered.
    This is the story of one of these builders of the West ...
    Jim Dancer, bad man, outlaw ..... Fighting man of the plains.


    During the desperate days of the Civil War-August 21, 1863,-Quantrell's raid on Lawrence, Kansas.
    The bloody war between the states finally came to an end, but on the border the hatreds had been too great.
    Men continued to ride and fight and die.
    The name of Quantrell was heard no more, but new names were whispered,
    names of men who had ridden with Quantrell and were now outlaws.


    1868 ARCH CLEMENTS 1869 THE YOUNGER BROTHERS 1870 JESSE JAMES 1871 JIM DANCER 1872


    Filming Locations
    Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA


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    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

  • Fighting Man of the Plains is a 1949 film directed by Edwin L. Marin.
    It stars Randolph Scott and Bill Williams.


    Look out for Duke 'Pal' Paul Fix as Yancey



    User Review


    Great script in b/w western
    17 September 2001 | by Jens Carl (Solvesborg, Sweden)

    Photos with courtesy of lasbugas









    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

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