Utah Wagon Train

Oct 14, 1951

1h 7m

★ 5.0

A half-million in gold buried in a cave 100 years and a mad race across the forgotten California pioneer trail to find it

Overview

Rancher Rex Allen receives a summons from his uncle. an old time frontiersman, that he is in trouble. The uncle has been hired to lead a modern-day band of adventurers on a wagon train retracing the route taken by their ancestors 100 years ago. Before Rex can talk to his uncle, the uncle is murdered, and Rex sets out to find the killer and the motive by taking his uncle's place as the leader of the wagon train.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Republic Pictures

Utah Wagon Train Trailers

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Cast

Rex Allen

Koko, Rex Allen's Horse (as Koko the Miracle Horse of the Movies)

Koko

'Snooper' Trent

Buddy Ebsen

Nancy Bonner

Penny Edwards

Hank Driscoll

Roy Barcroft

Sarah Wendover

Sarah Padden

Red Bancroft

Grant Withers

Robert Hatfield

Arthur Space

Jess Sutton

Edwin Rand

Henchman Jack Scully

Robert Karnes

Henchman Pete Millan

William Holmes

Sheriff

Stanley Andrews

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Cast

Rex Allen

Koko, Rex Allen's Horse (as Koko the Miracle Horse of the Movies)