Santa Fe Trail

Year:

1940

Duration:

110 min | West Germany:93 min (cut version)

Genres:

IMDB rate:

6.3

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1940-12-28

Filming Locations: Lasky Mesa, West Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Mitzi Green

Errol Flynn

Jeb Stuart

Olivia de Havilland

'Kit Carson' Holliday

Raymond Massey

John Brown

Ronald Reagan

George Custer

Alan Hale

Tex Bell

William Lundigan

Bob Holliday

Van Heflin

Rader

Gene Reynolds

Jason Brown

Henry O'Neill

Cyrus Holliday

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Windy Brody

Alan Baxter

Oliver Brown

John Litel

Martin

Moroni Olsen

Robert E. Lee

David Bruce

Phil Sheridan

Hobart Cavanaugh

Barber Doyle

Charles D. Brown

Major Sumner

Joe Sawyer

Kitzmiller

Frank Wilcox

James Longstreet

Ward Bond

Townley

Russell Simpson

Shubel Morgan

Charles Middleton

Gentry (as Charles Middletown)

Erville Alderson

Jefferson Davis

Spencer Charters

Conductor

Susan Peters

Charlotte (as Suzanne Carnahan)

William Marshall

George Pickett

George Haywood

John Hood

Cliff Clark

Instructor (scenes deleted)

Edmund Cobb

Guard (scenes deleted)

Louis Jean Heydt

Farmer (scenes deleted)

William Hopper

Officer (scenes deleted)

Edward Peil Sr.

Guard (scenes deleted)

Addison Richards

Minister (scenes deleted)

Harry Strang

Sergeant (scenes deleted)

Emmett Vogan

Lieutenant (scenes deleted)

Arthur Aylesworth

Abolitionist at Russell's House (uncredited)

Roy Barcroft

Engineer (uncredited)

Trevor Bardette

Agitator in Palmyra (uncredited)

Al Bridge

Palmyra Townsman (uncredited)

Jess Lee Brooks

Doorman at Washington Party (uncredited)

Georgia Caine

Officer's Wife at Party (uncredited)

Lucia Carroll

Girl at Wedding (uncredited)

Eddy Chandler

Armory Guard (uncredited)

Lane Chandler

Adjutant (uncredited)

Mildred Coles

Girl at Wedding (uncredited)

Harry Cording

Workman in Delaware Crossing (uncredited)

Joseph Crehan

Officer at Washington Party (uncredited)

Neal Dodd

Preacher at Wedding (uncredited)

Jim Farley

Brewer, Armory Hostage (uncredited)

Mildred Gover

Mammy (uncredited)

Creighton Hale

Telegraph Operator (uncredited)

Henry Hall

Abolitionist at Russell's House (uncredited)

Sam Harris

Party Guest (uncredited)

Theresa Harris

Maid (uncredited)

Edward Hearn

Abolitionist in Armory (uncredited)

Russell Hicks

Dr. J. Boyce Russell (uncredited)

Selmer Jackson

Officer Reading Names of Graduates (uncredited)

Payne B. Johnson

Western Boy (uncredited)

Victor Kilian

Dispatch Rider (uncredited)

Richard Kipling

Army Doctor Attending Jason (uncredited)

Wilfred Lucas

Weiner (uncredited)

Frank Mayo

Engineer (uncredited)

Tom McGuire

Man with Surveyor (uncredited)

Lafe McKee

Minister (uncredited)

Mira McKinney

Survivor at Delaware Crossing (uncredited)

John Meyer

Workman (uncredited)

Frank Mills

Train Passenger (uncredited)

Edmund Mortimer

Extra in Washington Party (uncredited)

Jack Mower

Surveyor (uncredited)

Nestor Paiva

Abolitionist Noticing Army Horse Brand (uncredited)

Bernice Pilot

Hannah (uncredited)

Alex Proper

Townsman (uncredited)

Clinton Rosemond

Black Man on Train (uncredited)

Napoleon Simpson

Samson (uncredited)

Walter Soderling

Abolitionist at Russell's House (uncredited)

Grace Stafford

Farmer's Wife (uncredited)

Libby Taylor

Black Woman (uncredited)

Ernestine Wade

Black Woman (uncredited)

Eddy Waller

Workman (uncredited)

Ernest Whitman

Black Man in Barn (uncredited)

Maris Wrixon

Girl at Wedding (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Aptly enough, the movie made its world premiere in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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The song, "Benny Havens, Oh!" (sung by the soldiers at the farewell party at Fort Leavenworth) is a song from West Point. Benny Havens ran a public house near by West Point Military Academy. The writing of the song in his establishment by a Lieutenant O'Brien is commemorated in a mural in the Benny Havens Room of the West Point Army Mess.

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

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Goofs

Stuart's first assignment after graduating from West Point was the U.S. Mounted Rifles in Texas, followed by the 1st Regiment of the U.S. Cavalry, not the 2nd Cavalry as depicted in the film.

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The final battle takes place in a building called "The Arsenal". The Federal Armory at Harpers Ferry was actually a complex of manufacturing, storage, and office buildings. During the fighting, John Brown's force finally took refuge in the Fire House, one of the smallest of the buildings on the Armory grounds. The Fire House was built of brick but had three large wooden doors through which the firefighting equipment could move.

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John Brown did not wear a beard while in Kansas, but rather years later.

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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?

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James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart: What do you mean trailing us halfway across Kansas?

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Kit Carson Holliday: Oh, Jeb, what does pride got to do with guns?

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