Rage at Dawn (1955)

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  • RAGE AT DAWN

    DIRECTED BY TIM WHELAN
    NAT HOLT PRODUCTIONS
    RKO RADIO PICTURES


    INFORMATION FROM IMDb


    Plot Summary
    Terrorizing 1866 Indiana, the Reno brothers gang uses the town of Seymour as a safe haven,
    paying off three crooked town officials.
    Sent in to clean up the gang is Peterson Detective Agency operative James Barlow,
    who poses as an outlaw to gain the confidence of the officials and the thick-headed brothers.
    Complicating matters are Barlow's feelings for the Reno sister,
    Laura, who reluctantly keeps house for the boys out of family loyalty.
    Events heat up and rage surfaces as Barlow sets up the gang in a dawn train robbery.
    Written by Doug Sederberg

    Cast
    Randolph Scott ... James Barlow
    Forrest Tucker ... Frank Reno
    Mala Powers ... Laura Reno
    J. Carrol Naish ... Simeon 'Sim' Reno
    Edgar Buchanan ... Judge
    Myron Healey ... John Reno
    Howard Petrie ... Lattimore - Prosecuting Attorney
    Ray Teal ... Sheriff of Seymour
    William Forrest ... William Peterson
    Denver Pyle ... Clint Reno
    revor Bardette ... Fisher
    Kenneth Tobey ... Monk Claxton
    and many more...


    Directed
    Tim Whelan


    Writing Credits
    Horace McCoy ... (screenplay)
    Frank Gruber ... (story)


    Produced
    Nat Holt ... producer


    Music
    Paul Sawtell


    Cinematography
    Ray Rennahan ... director of photography


    Trivia
    Ten members of the Reno gang were lynched in three separate incidents in 1868.
    The first three were taken by vigilantes from a train.
    Three others were lynched at a later time.
    The last lynching, which included three Reno brothers, Frank, Sim, and Bill,
    actually claimed a fourth victim, gang member Charlie Anderson.
    Anderson and Frank Reno were technically in federal custody when they were lynched.
    This is believed to be the only time in U.S. history that a federal prisoner
    had ever been lynched by a mob before a trial.


    The part of the honest Reno brother Clint was played by Denver Pyle
    One year later Elvis Presley made his film debut playing
    the same character in Love Me Tender (1956).


    A vintage photograph shows John Reno wearing a porkpie hat.
    However, Myron Healey's John wears a standard cowboy hat,
    and it is brother Clint who's costumed in a porkpie.


    Train being robbed both times is Sierra Railway #3 out of Jamestown, CA.


    Goofs
    Factual errors
    In the film brothers Frank, Sim, and John are lynched.
    In reality John was not hanged by the vigilantes but had been imprisoned and lived until 1895.
    Bill was the third brother hanged although in the film he is killed
    in a bungled bank robbery early in the film.


    Although the film shows two of the identified vigilantes were imprisoned for the crime,
    in reality not one of the 65 man lynch mob was ever identified or punished.


    The film takes place in 1866.
    When Randolph Scott is in the dry goods store the man asks
    if he is an artist like Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
    The problem is, Van Gogh was only thirteen years old
    at the time and not a famous artist.


    Revealing mistakes
    Set in Indiana in 1866, the opening sequences reveal telephone poles
    and telephone lines in the background.
    Also, the U.S. and California State flag are shown on a flagpole in the background.
    (The film was shot in California)


    Although the film is set in the Midwestern state of Indiana,
    the opening sequence shows a desert landscape and the kind
    of towering buttes found in the Southwest--e.g.,
    Utah and Arizona--and not on the flat prairies of Indiana.


    Memorable Quotes


    Filming Locations
    Honey Run Covered Bridge, Chico, California, USA (Opening & closing Credits})
    Arizona, USA
    Sierra Railroad, Jamestown, California, USA (Robbery)
    Murphys Hotel, 457 Main Street, Murphys, California, USA (Lynch Mob scene)
    Columbia State Historic Park - 22708 Broadway, Columbia, California, USA
    Sonora, California, USA
    Ratto Ranch ,Sonora California, USA (Farmhouse)


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    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

    Edited 16 times, last by ethanedwards ().

  • Rage at Dawn is a 1955 Technicolor Western film directed by
    Tim Whelan, and starring Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker, Mala Powers, and J. Carrol Naish.


    It purports to tell the true story of the Reno Brothers,
    an outlaw gang which terrorized the American Midwest, particularly Southern Indiana,
    in the period immediately following the American Civil War.


    A more successful version of the Reno brothers' story was released the following year
    as Love Me Tender, starring Elvis Presley as Clint Reno.



    User Review


    great cast and unusual locale.....
    24 July 2006 | by johnmiatech (United States)

    Quote from john

    I am a great fan of westerns. Knowing the state of California quite well,


    I particularly like to identify locations used in films. As the primary California locations are the Alabama Hills in Inyo Co., Vasquez Rocks in LA Co., Red Rock Canyon in Kern Co. and various areas near Bishop,
    I was interested in the locale used here....just south of the present New Melones Reservoir in Calaveras Co. and the state park in Columbia... especially as they were supposed to be somewhere in southern Indiana. This movie had a very strong cast but a bit of a choppy plot. I would also add that neither the vegetation nor the rock outcroppings fit with Indiana,
    and for a western buff, will distract from an otherwise acceptable film.

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

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