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Status
Released
Release
1959
Runtime
1h 26m
"When the cry of a frontier on the move was '54-40 or fight' !"
In 1846, a reporter for the New York Herald joins a wagon train bound for the Oregon Territory. He hopes to confirm a rumor that President Polk is sending in soldiers disguised as settlers in order to strengthen American claims to the Territory.
28 Cast Members
Fred MacMurray
Neal Harris
William Bishop
Captain George Wayne
Nina Shipman
Prudence Cooper
Gloria Talbott
Shona Hastings
Henry Hull
George Seton
John Carradine
Zachariah Garrison
John Dierkes
Gabe Hastings
Roxene Wells
Flossie Shoemaker
Elizabeth Patterson
Maria Cooper
Gene N. Fowler
Richard Cooper
James Bell
Jeremiah Cooper
John Slosser
Johnny
Ralph Sanford
John Decker
Sherry Spalding
Lucy
Tex Terry
Brizzard
Ollie O'Toole
James Gordon Bennett
Arvo Ojala
Ellis
Ed Wright
Jesse
Addison Richards
President James Polk (uncredited)
Lumsden Hare
Sir Richard Wallingham (uncredited)
