When the Daltons Rode (1940)
- Starring:
- Randolph Scott, Kay Francis, (more)
- Director(s):
- George Marshall
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of When the Daltons Rode
When the Daltons Rode is the much-embellished tale of that celebrated outlaw family, the Daltons. Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy, Stu Erwin and Frank Albertson play the gunslinging brothers, with Mary Gordon on hand as Ma Dalton. In the tradition of the 1939 western Jesse James, the film whitewashes the Daltons, showing them being forced into committing their crimes by duplicitous railroad interests. There's plenty of comic banter and byplay until about twenty minutes from the end; then the film becomes a nonstop marathon of action, halted only by the Daltons' fateful (and for the most part fatal) bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas. Randolph Scott is the nominal hero, a lawyer who befriends the boys and tries to dissuade them from their life of crime. When the Daltons Rode ends with all four brothers dead as doornails--even though the script was based on the autobiography of the surviving Dalton! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 81 mins
Complete Cast of When the Daltons Rode
- Randolph Scott - Tom Jackson
- Brian Donlevy - Grat Dalton
- Broderick Crawford - Bob Dalton
- Andy Devine - Ozark
- Mary Gordon - Ma Dalton
- Edgar Dearing - Sheriff
- Dorothy Granger - Nancy
- Walter Soderling - Judge Swain
- Erville Alderson - District Attorney Wade
- June Wilkins - Suzy
- Jack Clifford - Deputy
- Dorothy Moore - Girl
- Bob Reeves - Henchman
- George Guhl - Deputy in Baggage Car
- Russell Powell - Engineer
- Bob McKenzie - Photographer
- Tom London - Lyncher
- Robert Dudley - Juror Pete Norris
- Kernan Cripps - Freight Agent
- Kay Francis - Julie King
- George Bancroft - Caleb Winters
- Stuart Erwin - Ben Dalton
- Frank Albertson - Emmett Dalton
- Harvey Stephens - Rigby
- Quen Ramsey - Wilson
- Fay McKenzie - Hannah
- Mary Ainslee - Minnie
- Sally Payne - Annabella
- Edgar Buchanan - Man at Livery Stable
- Walter Long - Deputies on Train
- John Beck - Native
- Ed Brady
- Pat West - Pete, the Restaurant Owner
- James C. Morton - Juror Ed Pickett
- Lafe [Lafayette] McKee - Doctor
- William Gould
- Harry Cording - Sam Fleeson
- Director(s):
- George Marshall
- Writer(s):
- Lester Cole, Harold Shumate, Stuart Anthony
- Categories:
- Westerns
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