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
Errol Flynn
Australia
Best movies:
Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Captain Blood (1935)
Olivia de Havilland
Japan
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Heiress (1949)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Raymond Massey
Canada
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
East of Eden (1955)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Ronald Reagan
USA
Best movies:
Storm Warning (1951)
'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Videos (1996) (video compilation)
Trumbo (2015) - a.f.
Alan Hale
USA
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
William Lundigan
USA
Best movies:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Dodge City (1939)
Pinky (1949)
Van Heflin
USA
Best movies:
Airport (1970)
Act of Violence (1948)
Once a Thief (1965)
Gene Reynolds
USA
Best movies:
Captains Courageous (1937)
The Country Girl (1954)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Henry O'Neill
USA
Best movies:
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
USA
Best movies:
City Girl (1930)
Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941)
Beggars of Life (1928)
Alan Baxter
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
The Set-Up (1949)
John Litel
USA
Best movies:
Dodge City (1939)
Jezebel (1938)
Key Largo (1948)
Moroni Olsen
USA
Best movies:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
David Bruce
USA
Best movies:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
The Letter (1940)
Hobart Cavanaugh
USA
Best movies:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
The House of Fear (1945)
Charles D. Brown
USA
Best movies:
The Big Sleep (1946)
Notorious (1946)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Joe Sawyer
Canada
Best movies:
The Killing (1956)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Gilda (1946)
Frank Wilcox
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Ward Bond
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Fury (1936)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Russell Simpson
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
Dodge City (1939)