Fighting Caravans

Feb 1, 1931

1h 32m

★ 4.8

Writing, in flames and blood, the vivid history of those epic days

Overview

Clint Belmet is a bit of a firebrand and is sentenced to at least 30 days in jail, but his partners, Bill Jackson and Jim Bridger talk a sympathetic Frenchwoman named Felice into telling the bumbling, drunken marshal that Clint had married her the previous night. Clint is released so he can accompany Felice on the wagon train heading west to California.

Genres

Action

Western

Romance

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Clint Belmet

Gary Cooper

Felice

Lili Damita

Bill Jackson

Ernest Torrence

Jim Bridger

Tully Marshall

Lee Murdock

Fred Kohler

Seth Higgins

Eugene Pallette

Couch

Roy Stewart

Jane

May Boley

Faith

Eve Southern

Jeff Moffitt

Frank Campeau

Marshall

Charles Winninger

Renegade

Frank Hagney

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