WHEN THE DALTONS RODE
DIRECTED BY GEORGE MARSHALL
UNIVERSAL PICTURES
INFORMATION FROM IMDb
Plot Summary
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas
to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons,
just as the latter are in danger of losing their land
to a crooked development company.
When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the
Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains
in this fictionalized version.
Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love
with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
Written by Rod Crawford
Cast
Randolph Scott ... Tod Jackson
Kay Francis ... Julie King
Brian Donlevy ... Grat Dalton
George Bancroft ... Caleb Winters
Broderick Crawford ... Bob Dalton
Stuart Erwin ... Ben Dalton
Andy Devine ... Ozark
Frank Albertson ... Emmett Dalton
Mary Gordon ... Ma Dalton
Harvey Stephens ... Rigby
Edgar Dearing ... Sheriff (as Edgar Deering)
Quen Ramsey ... Wilson
Dorothy Granger ... Nancy (as Dorothy Grainger)
Robert McKenzie ... Photographer (as Bob McKenzie)
Fay McKenzie ... Hannah
Walter Soderling ... Judge Lucius Thorndown [Judge Swain in credits]
Mary Ainslee ... Minnie
Erville Alderson ... District Attorney Wade
Sally Payne ... Annabella
June Wilkins ... Suzy
and many more...
Directed
George Marshall
Writing Credits
Harold Shumate ... (original screen play)
Emmett Dalton ... (based on: "When the Daltons Rode") &
Jack Jungmeyer ... (based on: "When the Daltons Rode") (as Jack Jungmeyer Sr.)
Music
Frank Skinner ... (musical score)
Cinematography
Hal Mohr ... director of photography Film Editing by
Trivia
Crazy Credits
Towards the end of the 19th Century in America, civilization surges ever west and in it's wake,
came that inseparable pair, INJUSTICE and CRIME. In the history of the reckless violence
that seized Kansas and Oklahoma, no name carried more terror than DALTON.
There were more famous outlaws, but none more daring, none more desperate.
This, then, is the story of the Dalton brothers, based, to a large extent,
on the tales that the old settlers still tell of them-woven together with strands of fiction.
But, so incredible were the Daltons, that no man can say where fact ends and fancy begins.
Goofs
Anachronisms
In one scene near the end, one of the townsfolk refers to Oklahoma as a state, "...not in this State".
Oklahoma only obtained Statehood in 1907, long after the Daltons' demise.
Factual errors
The film's climax shows Emmett Dalton being killed in a shoot-out
during an attempted bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas.
In reality, Dalton survived the shoot-out and went on to write the book that this film was based on.
Revealing mistakes
Just as Bob Dalton jumps on the stagecoach from the large rock,
the coach driver flinches before he even sees Bob jumping on him.
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[/extendedmedia]Filming Locations
California, USA