Dodge City (1939)


Dodge City
Release Date01 April 1939
GenreWestern, Romance
CountryUSA
Filming LocationsCalabasas, California, USA
LanguageEnglish
Sound MixMono
ColorColor
Film TypeFeature
Film ClassTraditional Western
ThemesSheriffs and Outlaws, Ranchers
TonesEarnest, Tense, Earthy, Rousing
TagsAdventurer, Barroom Brawl, Cattlemen, False Accusation, Fight, Frontier, Lawman, Outlaw [Western], Romance, Rustler, Saloon, Sheriff, Stampede, Town, Treachery, Wrongful Death

Dodge City is a 1939 American Western film starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Directed by Hungarian-turned-Hollywood filmmaker Michael Curtiz and based on a story by Robert Buckner, it was filmed in early Technicolor. As a classic western, Dodge City contains — with the possible exception of an attack by hostile Red Indians — all the stock ingredients and clichés the genre has usually been associated with. It chronicles the rise, after the end of the Civil War, of the small frontier post of Dodge City, Kansas to civilized and respectable town and trading place for cattle. In the process, Dodge City has to get rid of the baddies terrorizing the citizens, and it takes a new sheriff and his deputy to clean up the town and introduce law and order.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Wade Hatton

Abbie Irving

Ruby Gilman

Jeff Surrett

Joe Clemens

Rusty Hart

Matt Cole

Dr. Irving

Col. Dodge

Yancey

Lee Irving

Harry Cole

Mrs. Cole

Mrs. Irving

Surrett's lawyer

Bud Taylor

Mrs. McCoy

Barlow

Hank Bell
Arrested man with mustache

Charley

George Bloom
Townsman

Cattle auctioneer

Horace B. Carpenter
Train passenger

Nat Carr
Crocker

Reverend

Tom Chatterton
Passenger

George Chesebro
Townsman

Chester Clute
Coggins

Richard Cramer
Hotel desk clerk

Hammond

Jim Farley
Engineer

Pat Flaherty
Cowhand

Sam Garrett
Roper, Rider

Sol Gorss
Train fireman

Fred Graham
Al

George Guhl
Marshal Jason

Twitchell

Earle Hodgins
Spieler

Mail clerk

Reed Howes
Joe

Milton Kibbee
Printer

Bernard L. Kowalski
Extra

Lillian Lawrence
League Member

League member in polka-dot dress

Bartender

Merrill McCormick
Man wanting revenge by hanging

Man at funeral

Conductor

Bud Osborne
Stagecoach driver, waiter

Henry Otho
Conductor

Mr. Turner

Ralph Sanford
Brawler

Francis Sayles
Stage shotgun guard

Guy Wilkerson
Man wanting revenge by hanging

Director

Writer

Robert Buckner

Producer

Robert Lord
associate producer

executive producer

Original Music

Adolph Deutsch
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Cinematographer

Sol Polito

Editor

George Amy
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Art Director

Ted Smith
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Makeup Department

Perc Westmore
makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Sherry Shourds
assistant director

Sound Department

Oliver S. Garretson
sound

Special Effects

Byron Haskin
special effects

Rex Wimpy
special effects

Stunts

Harold Breen
stunts

stunts

Sol Gorss
stunt double: Victor Jory

Fred Graham
stunts

Duke Green
stunts

Herbert Holcombe
stunts

Cliff Lyons
stunts

Harvey Parry
stunts

Gil Perkins
stunts

Don Turner
stunts

Buster Wiles
stunt double: Errol Flynn and Douglas Fowley

Jack Williams
stunts

Camera and Electrical Department

Ray Rennahan
associate photographer

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Milo Anderson
costumes

Music Department

musical director

Hugo Friedhofer
orchestrator

Other Crew

Jo Graham
dialogue director

Natalie Kalmus
color director

Morgan Padelford
associate technicolor color director

Production Company

Warner Bros. Pictures
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Distributor

Warner Bros. Pictures
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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

Dominant Pictures Corporation

MGM/UA Home Entertainment
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Warner Home Video
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