The Santa Fe Trail

Sep 27, 1930

1h 5m

★ 5.2

Burning ardor of Spanish Love-thrills of the border-romance of old Mexico!

Overview

A sheepman tries to hire Indians as herders. Though the Indians are blamed for farmers' losses, the hero shows that a white crook is responsible.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

The Santa Fe Trail Trailers

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Cast

Stan Hollister

Richard Arlen

Maria Castinado

Rosita Moreno

Doc Brady

Eugene Pallette

Emily

Mitzi Green

Old Timer

Junior Durkin

Marc Coulard

Hooper Atchley

Juan Castinado

Luis Alberni

Slaven

Lee Shumway

Brown Beaver

Chief Yowlachie

Two best friends, Clint and Lenny, set out to pan for gold during the California Gold Rush. They have a stroke of luck and find a significant amount of gold in their pans. As they continue to pan, Clint becomes increasingly fixated on finding more and more gold, to the point where he becomes ruthless and starts to turn on Lenny. Lenny tries to remind Clint of the importance of their friendship and the values they once held, but Clint's greed continues to consume him. Eventually, their friendship is put to the test as Clint's behavior becomes increasingly dangerous and erratic. Will the gold be the end of their friendship, or will Lenny be able to save his friend from the destructive power of greed?

6.0

Old Overland Trail

Feb 25, 1953

Anchor is building a railroad and to get cheap labor he gets Black Hawk's Indians to attack and burn the incoming wagon train. This forces the settlers to work for Anchor and he pays them in devalued scrip. When Rex figures out Anchor's swindle, Anchor gets Black Hawk to capture him. When Anchor turns on Black Hawk and shoots him, Black Hawk gets a chance to repay a debt to Rex.

6.0

Sacred Ground

Mar 11, 1983

SACRED GROUND tells the fact-based story of a mountain man and his Indian wife who happen upon a partially built cabin and finish it for their own home, not realizing that they occupy a sacred burial ground. A Paiute burial party clashes with the couple and in the ensuing skirmish, the wife is critically wounded while in the middle of childbirth. Bitter over her loss and needing a wetnurse for his baby, he steals one of the Paiute woman who had just lost a baby. In this modern version of Helen of Troy, the battle is on, as he takes on the whole band in a desperate attempt to survive. Written by Dale Roloff

5.0

The Half-Breed

May 3, 1952

An Apache of mixed blood tries to make peace between Indians and whites.

6.3

Joe Dakota

Oct 27, 1957

A stranger rides into town and says he is looking for a local Indian. Told he left town, the truth everyone has been hiding comes out including the stranger's true identity.

4.6

Blue Bird

Dec 13, 1979

In the middle of the 18th Century, the Ruster family immigrates to America. The father, a former farm laborer, leads a hard life as a settler along with his family. One day the nine year-old George, his second-youngest son, is kidnapped by Iroquois. He is taken in by an Indian family in the place of a deceased son and receives the name "Blue Bird." The boy has homesickness and difficulties accustoming to the customs of the Indians.

6.6

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

Aug 4, 1947

A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.

5.8

Valley of the Sun

Feb 6, 1942

An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.

6.3

Fort Defiance

Oct 9, 1951

It's just after the Civil War and Ben Shelby arrives looking for Johnny Tallon whom he plans to kill. Shelby was the only survivor of a battle due to the cowardice of Tallon. Thinking Tallon dead, another man who lost a brother at the same battle arrives to kill Tallon's blind brother. Tallon arrives to find Shelby and his brother fleeing. Then they are attacked by Indians and Shelby and Tallon must now fight together postponing the inevitable showdown.

5.6

The Plunderers

Oct 30, 1948

Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pictures Western, released in the company's patented Trucolor system. The "killing," however, is merely a ruse set up to allow army agent Johnny Drum to infiltrate a gang of highway robbers.

5.0

The Deerslayer

Dec 18, 1978

Frontiersman Hawkeye and his blood brother Chingachgook attempt to rescue the daughter of a chief who was captured by raiders from a rival tribe in this adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tale" of 1841.

5.4

Desert Gold

Mar 26, 1936

Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer to locate the mine. When Gale sees Kasedon's cruelty to Moya, he switches sides.

4.2

Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory

Feb 8, 1952

Story concerns the efforts of Buffalo Bill to protect the Indian's land from a gang who want to get the gold buried there. The outlaws disguise themselves as Indians and raid and plunder the settlers in order to blame the tribe.

6.0

Apache Ambush

Aug 24, 1955

Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.

5.3

Rose of Cimarron

Jan 28, 1952

A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents.

5.2

The Scout

May 27, 1983

1877, the tribe of the Nez Percés Indians are driven into the reservation by a white cavalry force. So that they can not escape, their horses are requisitioned. Sub-chief "White Feather" has no choice but to make a scout with the cavalry and retrieve the stolen horses through his life.

6.7

Slow West

May 15, 2015

In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.

4.0

The Pathfinder

Dec 9, 1952

Pathfinder, a white man raised by the Mohican Indians, joins forces with the British army to avenge himself on the Mingo warriors and the French, who have brought death and pillage to his people. He takes on a mission to retrieve secret plans from within the French fort at St. Vicente.

6.1

Walk the Proud Land

Sep 1, 1956

Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apache based on respect for autonomy rather than submission to Army. Wins over reservation chiefs and the Indian widow given to him as housekeeper. Through use of diplomacy and demonstrations of faith in Apache leaders, reservation is put on the road to autonomy. Conflicts arise between Apache widow and Eastern wife but latter has a lot to learn.