Wells Fargo

12/31/19371h 34m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ TOGETHER THEY BUILD A CONTINENT! He lives the magnificent adventure that saves a country and she shares the adventures of the man she loves! ~

Overview:

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

Director:

Frank Lloyd

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

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Revenue:

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Key words:

gold rush
historical fiction
train
american civil war
stagecoach driver

Cast

Joel McCrea

~ as ~

Ramsay MacKay

Bob Burns

~ as ~

Hank York, a wanderer

Frances Dee

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Justine Pryor

Lloyd Nolan

~ as ~

Dal Slade

Henry O'Neill

~ as ~

Henry Wells

Mary Nash

~ as ~

Mrs. Pryor

Ralph Morgan

~ as ~

Nicholas Pryor

Johnny Mack Brown

~ as ~

Talbot Carter

Porter Hall

~ as ~

James Oliver

Jack Clark

~ as ~

William Fargo

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 5 month(s) ago
6
Though it does capture a little of the pioneering spirit of the folks travelling west, it’s just too episodic and becomes even a bit dull. It gets off to a lively enough start as we meet “Ramsay” (Joel McCrae) who is bidding for a contract to shift goods from the east coast past the terminus of the railway and out into the rapidly populating wilderness. It’s while he is trying to prove he can get live oysters to the table that he encounters the broken down carriage of “Justine” (Frances Dee) and her mother (Mary Nash) and so soon has a little extra romantic impetus as his career starts to expand just as quickly as his network of deliveries. Along the way he has to compete with the postal service, ambitious competitors and marauding Apache but little prepares him for the impact of the Civil War. By now he is managing the service as far as California, and it’s their goldmines that are funding the Yankee army. This news isn’t wasted on the Confederacy who decide that these shipments could be diverted, and this puts their travels in even more danger as well as causing consternation at home with a family who might just have Johnny-Reb sympathies. When the story focuses on the adventure elements, it works fine. McCrae holds it together well enough as the stagecoach gets chased, burned and robbed. Sadly, though, as civilisation reaches the Pacific coast it rather stupefies those action scenes and replaces them with something altogether more mediocre.