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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