BRANDED
DIRECTED BY RUDOLPH MATE
MISIC BY ROY WEBB
PARAMOUNT PICTURES
INFORMATION FROM IMDb
Plot Summary
Twenty-five years ago the Lavery baby was kidnapped. Bad guy Leffingwell
gets Choya to impersonate the son to gain the Lavery estate. When he finally fesses up to his
"sister" Ruth she is furious.To redeem himself he sets out to find the real son.
Written by Ed Stephan
Cast
Alan Ladd ... Choya
Mona Freeman ... Ruth Lavery
Charles Bickford ... Mr. Lavery
Robert Keith ... T. Jefferson Leffingwell
Joseph Calleia ... Rubriz
Peter Hansen ... Tonio
Selena Royle ... Mrs. Lavery
Tom Tully ...Ransom
John Berkes ... Tattoo
Milburn Stone ... Dawson
Martin Garralaga ... Hernandez
Edward Clark ... Dad Travis
John Butler ... Spig
and many more...
Directed
Rudolph Maté
Writing Credits
Sydney Boehm ... (screenplay) and
Cyril Hume ... (screenplay)
Max Brand ... (novel) (as Evan Evans)
Frederick Hazlitt Brennan ... (contract writer) (uncredited)
Winston Miller ... (contract writer) (uncredited)
Produced
Mel Epstein
Music by
Roy Webb
Cinematography
Charles Lang
W. Wallace Kelley
Trivia
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 28, 1952
with Mona Freeman reprising her film role.
Goofs
Anachronisms
When Alan Ladd's character is washing up (takes his shirt off to reveal the fake birthmark)
after riding the unbroken horse, he uses a faucet from a modern pressurized water system rather than a period hand pump.
Filming Locations
Globe, Arizona, USA
Portal, Arizona, USA
Salt River Canyon, Arizona, USA
San Simon, Arizona, USA
Douglas, Arizona, USA
Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park - 10700 W. Escondido Canyon Rd., Agua Dulce, California, USA
Monogram Ranch - 24715 Oak Creek Avenue, Newhall, California, USA
Dragoon Mountains, Arizona, USA
Slaughter Ranch, Douglas, Arizona, USA
Cave Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA
Skeleton Canyon, Arizona, USA
Tortilla Flat, Arizona, USA
Superstition Wilderness, Arizona, USA
Reavis Ranch, Arizona, USA
Fish Creek, Arizona, USA
Tonto National Forest, Arizona, USA
Kanab Canyon, Kanab, Utah, USA
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