Directed by:
Michael CurtizScreenplay:
Robert BucknerCinematography:
Sol PolitoComposer:
Max SteinerCast:
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, William Lundigan, Van Heflin, Gene Reynolds, Henry O'Neill (more)Plots(1)
In 1854, the United States Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which answered the question of slavery in the western territories by giving their settlers the right to vote on it. Violent clashes became commonplace as Free-Soilers and proponents of slavery flooded Kansas in the effort to swing the vote. Santa Fe Trail tells the story of a group of West Point graduates sent to suppress the violence by standing between the warring parties, although some of the combatants, such as abolitionist John Brown, vowed to stop at nothing...not even death. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Nestor Paiva
USA
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Al Bridge
USA
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Cliff Clark
USA
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Louis Jean Heydt
USA
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Emmett Vogan
USA
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Harry Strang
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Roy Barcroft
USA
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Neal Dodd
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Selmer Jackson
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Edmund Mortimer
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Edward Hearn
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Blackie Whiteford
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Edward Peil Sr.
USA
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Eddy Chandler
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Lucia Carroll
USA
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Theresa Harris
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Clinton Rosemond
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Edward Biby
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Harry Cording
UK
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Walter Soderling
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