Branded

Branded (1950)

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A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.

Date of release
1950-11-03
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (28)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Western
Director
Rudolph Maté

Casting

Interesting facts

Branded is a 1950 American Technicolor Western film starring Alan Ladd, Mona Freeman, Charles Bickford and Robert Keith. It was adapted from the novel Montana Rides by Max Brand under the pen name Evan Evans. The plot concerns a gunfighter on the run from the law who poses as the long-lost son of a wealthy rancher.

Production

The film is based on the 1933 novel Montana Rides by Max Brand as Evan Evans. In 1949, RKO had released a Tom Keene Western titled Montana Rides, but the plot of that film was different.

The novel concerns a gunman named Montana, also known as the Arizona Kid or Mexico Kid, who impersonates the missing son of cattle magnate Richard Lavery. It was so popular that it led to a sequel novel, Montana Rides Again, in which the Montana Kid is lured into Mexico by bandits Mateo Rubriz and Friar Pacaul, who plan to steal an emerald from the governor that had been looted from a church.

In 1948, Winston Miller sold the story to Paramount, which sought to produce a film vehicle for Alan Ladd, with Miller to write the script and Robert Fellows to produce. Leslie Fenton was originally set to direct, but when he was assigned to The Jewell, the film was handed to Rudolph Maté. Mel Epstein became the producer.

In March 1950, the film was retitled Branded.

The film was mostly shot on location in Arizona in the border country near Douglas. Locations included Salt River Canyon, in the Dragoon Mountains, at the Slaughter Ranch and at Cave Creek Canyon.

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