Cattle Drive

Cattle Drive
Directed by	Kurt Neumann
Produced by	Aaron Rosenberg
Screenplay by	Lillie Hayward; Jack Natteford
Starring	Joel McCrea; Dean Stockwell; Chill Wills
Cinematography	Maury Gertsman
Edited by	Danny B. Landres
Production; company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	August 1, 1951 (Los Angeles); August 8, 1951 (New York City);
Running time	77 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Cattle Drive is a 1951 Technicolor Western film directed by Kurt Neumann starring Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell and Chill Wills. Much of the film was shot in the Death Valley National Park, California and Paria, Utah.

Plot

Chester Graham Jr. (Dean Stockwell), the spoiled young son of a wealthy railroad owner, gets lost in the middle of nowhere when he wanders away from a train during a water stop. He is found by a cowboy (Joel McCrea) who is part of a cattle drive. Lucky to be alive, the boy has to tag along with the cowboys. He learns the value of hard work, self-discipline and comradeship while working with the men on the trail to Santa Fe.

Influences

The basic story -- about a rich brat who gets lost in a dangerous place far from home, then learns character and values from the working men who rescue him -- echoes that of 1937's Oscar-winning film Captains Courageous, adapted from a novel by Rudyard Kipling.[1] The key difference, besides the fact that the leading man does not get killed in the end, is that "Cattle Drive" is set in a desert area and not at sea.

Cast

Joel McCrea - Dan Matthews
Dean Stockwell - Chester Graham Jr.
Chill Wills - Dallas
Leon Ames - Chester Graham Sr.
Howard Petrie - Cap
Bob Steele - Charlie Morgan
Griff Barnett - Conductor O'Hara
Lewis Martin - Winston

Production

Parts of the film were shot in Paria, Utah, and Death Valley.[2]

References

Hanfling, Barrie (2016). Westerns and the Trail of Tradition: A Year-by-Year History, 1929-1962. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-7864-4500-4. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
D'Arc, James V. (2010). When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah (1st ed.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423605874.

External links

Cattle Drive at IMDb
Joel McCrea at IMDb

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[1] Hanfling, Barrie (2016). Westerns and the Trail of Tradition: A Year-by-Year History, 1929-1962. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-7864-4500-4. Retrieved 2020-03-19.

[2] D'Arc, James V. (2010). When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah (1st ed.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423605874.