Roaring Guns (1944)
Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.
- Date of release
- 1944-02-19
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 19m
- Genres
- Western
- Director
- Jean Negulesco
Casting
- Robert Shayne — Jared Whitney
- Virginia Patton — Karen Ferris
- Mark Stevens — Lance Ferris
- Charles Arnt — Colonel Chris Ferris
- Norman Willis — Michen - Mine Foreman
- Russell Simpson — Farmer MacKenzie
- Art Baker — Narrator (voice)
- Ken Christy
- Fred Kelsey
- Jack Mower
Interesting facts
Roaring Guns is a 1944 short American Western film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Robert Shayne and Virginia Patton. It was written by Clements Ripley, Ed Earl Repp, Robert Buckner and Warren Duff, and depicts hydraulic gold mining which became popular after the initial Gold Rush had ended and the devastating effects on the land from mud and water on local farmers. The 19 minute film uses miniature models for some of the flood scenes. It is considered an early film for the environmental movement.
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