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Status
Released
Release
1940
Runtime
1h 21m
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"WANTED DEAD or ALIVE SCREAMED THE NATION WHEN the DALTONS ROAD"
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
60 Cast Members
Randolph Scott
Tod Jackson
Kay Francis
Julie King
Brian Donlevy
Grat Dalton
George Bancroft
Caleb Winters
Broderick Crawford
Bob Dalton
Stuart Erwin
Ben Dalton
Andy Devine
Ozark
Frank Albertson
Emmett Dalton
Mary Gordon
Ma Dalton
Harvey Stephens
Rigby
Edgar Dearing
Sheriff
Quen Ramsey
Wilson
Dorothy Granger
Nancy
Fay McKenzie
Hannah
Walter Soderling
Judge Lucius Thorndown [Judge Swain in credits]
Mary Ainslee
Minnie
Erville Alderson
District Attorney Wade
Sally Payne
Annabella
June Wilkins
Suzy
Edgar Buchanan
Narrator / Old-Timer (uncredited)
