Santa Fe Trail

1940
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1h 50m

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6.2/10

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Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, and Raymond Massey in Santa Fe Trail (1940)

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In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

4.3K

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Trivia
The seventh of nine movies made together by Warner Brothers' romantic couple Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn.

Goofs
The film plays fast and loose with the facts, most noticeably, the other officers who graduate at West Point with J.E.B. Stuart in 1854: James Longstreet (1842), George Pickett (1846), Philip Sheridan (1853), John Hood (1853), and George Custer (1861).

Quotes
Kit Carson Holliday: Jeb, I'm frightened. That boy is crippled for life. And that man on the train, he died for a principle. A man killed for a principle. One of them is wrong, but which one?
James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart: Who knows the answer to that, Kit. Everybody in America is trying to decide.
Kit Carson Holliday: Yes, by words from the East, and by guns from the West. But one day, the words will turn into guns.

Crazy credits
Opening card: "1854, THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POINT When the gray cradle of the American Army was only a small garrison with few cadets, but under a brilliant Commandant, named Robert E. Lee it was already building for the defense of a newly-won nation in a new world."

Alternate versions
The DVD version released in Brazil by Aspen Editora Ltda. (Revista Digital Showtime Clássicos collection) runs 114 minutes.

Connections
Featured in Foreigner: I Don't Want to Live Without You (1988)

Soundtracks
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
(uncredited)
Music by William Steffe (circa 1856)
Played during the opening credits
Variations played as background music often

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Pretty Decent Film

Even though this film is a jumbled mess and it does make John Brown out as his era's Osama Bin Laden, it still is a good film. Also, the fact that this film looks at some of the greatest generals in United States (Lee, Stewart and Custer) who were all good friends before the Civil War tore this country apart. Also, Raymond Massey gives a very chilling performance as Brown. His performance really made Brown look like the fanatic that he was portrayed as and he should have at least gotten an Oscar nomination. Even with all its flaws it is a pretty good film.