Wagon Train

Wagon Train (1940)

A New MAN of ACTION Rides the Range!

In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down his murderer. A certain Matt Gardner wants to corner the freight business to Pecos and persuades young Zack Sibley's wagon master to switch sides. Zack also earns the enmity of Gardner's son Coe, who takes umbrage to the youngster's flirtation with pretty Helen Lee. It all comes to a head during a food shortage in Pecos, a near-disaster that persuades the wagon master to switch sides once again. When the dust settles, Zack learns that old man Gardner is actually Carl Anderson, the man who murdered his father.

Date of release
1940-10-04
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (8)
Runtime
59m
Genres
Western
Director
Edward Killy

Casting

Interesting facts

Wagon Train is a 1940 American Western film directed by Edward Killy and starring Tim Holt. It was this film that really started Holt's series of B Westerns for RKO, replacing those made by George O'Brien.

Production

The film was the first in a series of six Westerns RKO planned with Holt. Martha O'Driscoll was signed to appear in the first two.

The films proved so popular the series continued until the early 1950s.

O'Driscoll and Holt were meant to reteam in Sir Piegan Passes but it was not made.

It was filmed in Kanab, Utah and in Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, California.

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