The Silver Whip (1953)
High ADVENTURE Rides the Stage!
Frustrated with the lack of opportunities in his hometown, young Jess Harker plans to leave, but sympathetic stagecoach armed guard Race Crim persuades his boss to give Jess the stage driver job.
- Date of release
- 1953-02-04
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
- Genres
- Western
- Director
- Harmon Jones
Casting
- Dale Robertson — Race Crim
- Rory Calhoun — Sheriff Tom Davisson
- Robert Wagner — Jess Harker
- Kathleen Crowley — Kathy Riley
- James Millican — Luke Bowen
- Lola Albright — Waco
- J.M. Kerrigan — Riley
- John Kellogg — Slater
- Ian MacDonald — Hank
- Paul Wexler — J.M. Horner (uncredited)
- Whip Wilson — Telegrapher (uncredited)
Interesting facts
The Silver Whip is a 1953 American Western film directed by Harmon Jones and starring Dale Robertson, Rory Calhoun and Robert Wagner.
Production
The film was based on the novel First Blood by Jack Schaefer, originally called Solstice (Schaefer wrote First Blood right after Shane).
The film was announced in August 1952 as Stage to Silver City with Wagner, Robertson and Calhoun attached and Jesse L. Lasky Jr. writing the script. In September the title was The Silver Whip.
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