Santa Fe Trail (film)

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Santa Fe Trail
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Produced by Hal B. Wallis
Robert Fellows
Written by Robert Buckner (screenplay)
Starring Errol Flynn
Olivia de Havilland
Raymond Massey
Ronald Reagan
Music by Max Steiner
Cinematography Sol Polito
Editing by George Amy
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) December 28, 1940
Running time 110 min.
Language English
IMDb profile

Santa Fe Trail is a 1940 western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Despite glaring historical inaccuracies, the film was one of the top-grossing films of the year, being the seventh Flynn-de Havilland collaboration. The film also has nothing to do with its namesake, the famed Santa Fe Trail. Instead, it follows the life of Jeb Stuart, a cavalry commander (and future Confederate Army general). The film entered the public domain in the mid-1990s.

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The film loosely follows the life of J.E.B. Stuart (Errol Flynn) before the outbreak of the American Civil War. Among its sub-plots include a romance with the fictional Kit Carson Holliday (Olivia de Havilland), friendship with George Armstrong Custer (Ronald Reagan), and battles against abolitionist John Brown (Raymond Massey).

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[edit] External links

Santa Fe Trail at the Internet Movie Database

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