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Pony Express (film)
''Pony Express'' is a 1953 American Western film directed by Jerry Hopper, filmed in Kanab, Utah, and starring Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill, Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickok, Jan Sterling as a Calamity Jane-type character, and Rhonda Fleming. The story is largely based on the 1925 silent film '' The Pony Express'' while the threat of a Californian secession is taken from '' Frontier Pony Express'' (1939). The film is an historical account of the formation of the Pony Express rapid transcontinental mail delivery in the United States in 1860–1861. Although it gives no credit to the real founders of the Pony Express, Buffalo Bill Cody did ride for them, having signed up when he was 15 years old. Plot In 1860, Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. On the way, they battle the weather, hostile Indians and California secessionists intent on shutting the operation down to encourage Califo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Hopper
Harold Hankins Hopper (July 29, 1907 – December 17, 1988), known professionally as Jerry Hopper, was an American film and television director, active from the mid-1940s through the early 1970s. Early life Jerry Hopper was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Career Hopper started as an office assistant at Paramount Pictures before becoming a radio scriptwriter and an editor before moving to the directors' chair for several installments of their Musical Parade series (1946–48). Hopper went on to direct feature films, such as, ''The Atomic City'' (1952), ''Pony Express (film), Pony Express'' (1953), ''Secret of the Incas'' (1954), and ''The Private War of Major Benson'' (1955), the latter three with actor Charlton Heston. In 1958 he directed Brandon deWilde and Lee Marvin in ''The Missouri Traveler''. He then moved primarily into episodic television, having appeared in ''Colt .45 (TV series), Colt .45'', ''Bachelor Father (U.S. TV series), Bachelor Father'', ''Wagon Train'', ''Guns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pony Express (1925 Film)
''The Pony Express'' is a 1925 American silent film, silent Western (genre), Western film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife, Betty Compson, along with Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft (actor), George Bancroft. Prints of this film survive, and it has been released on DVD. Plot As described in the studio pressbook for the film, in 1860, because of his anti-slavery orientation, Jack Weston, a gambler and dead shot, is marked for death by the "Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret society headed by avowed Secession in the United States, Secessionist Senator Glen. Weston makes a sensational escape and goes to Julesburg, Colorado, where he becomes a Pony Express rider. A bitter rivalry breaks out between Weston and Jack Slade, Superintendent of the Overland Stage Company, over the hand of Molly Jones, a popular local belle. Slade has arranged with Glen, in the event tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Randall (actor)
Stuart Randall (born Clarence W Maxwell, July 24, 1909 – June 22, 1988) was an American band leader, singer, live theater actor, and actor of film and television who appeared on screen between 1950 and 1971. Early years Randall was born in Brazil, Indiana, the son of Walter C Maxwell and Allie Ball Maxwell. He attended Brazil High School. Growing up, he lived in Brazil, Indiana. Before he became an actor, he sang with bands, including those of Jan Garber and Abe Lyman Abe Lyman (born Abraham Simon; August 4, 1897 – October 23, 1957) was a bandleader from the 1920s to the 1940s. He made recordings, appeared in films and provided the music for numerous radio shows, including '' Your Hit Parade''. Biography Bo ...; led an orchestra; and was a radio technician. In World War II, Randall went through Army basic and AIT (field artillery) training at Camp Roberts in California. Afterwards, it has been said, he was an observer for the general staff of the U. S. Army's groun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Brandon (actor)
Henry Brandon (born Heinrich von Kleinbach; 8 June 1912 – 15 February 1990) was an American film and stage character actor with a career spanning almost 60 years, involving more than 100 films; he specialized in playing a wide diversity of ethnic roles. Early life Brandon was born in 1912 in Berlin, German Empire, the son of Hildegard and Hugo R. von Kleinbach, a merchant. His parents emigrated to the United States while he was still an infant. After attending Stanford University, where he was a member of the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, he trained as a theatre actor at the Pasadena Community Playhouse and subsequently performed on Broadway theatre, Broadway, continuing to return to the stage periodically throughout his career. Film career He made his motion picture debut in 1932 as an uncredited spectator at the Colosseum in ''The Sign of the Cross (1932 film), The Sign of the Cross''. In the Victorian-era stage melodrama ''The Drunkard'' – played for laughs in a popular loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Shannon (actor)
Richard Esberry Mangan (July 25, 1920 – December 2, 1989) was an American film and television actor. He appeared in over 70 films and television programs, and was known for playing the role of Buck Henderson in the 1957 film '' The Tin Star''. In 1959 he appeared on ''Tales of Wells Fargo'' as outlaw Wade who contracts a hitman in season four's "Wanted: Jim Harrie." He later appeared as the cold hearted and oft drunk Deputy Gamer in a 1962 episode of ''Gunsmoke'' entitled "The Gallows." Later in the series, he had a larger role as one of the two title characters, Trapper Tug (partner to Strother Martin's Trapper Billy), in "The Trappers." Also in 1962, he appeared in an episode of ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.'' Partial filmography *'' The Girls of Pleasure Island'' (1953) − Captain McKendry (uncredited) *''Pony Express'' (1953) − Red Barrett *'' The Vanquished'' (1953) − Lieutenant Adams (uncredited) *''Houdini'' (1953) − Miner (uncredited) *''Arrowhead'' (1953) − ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Bridger
James Felix Bridger (March 17, 1804 – July 17, 1881) was an American mountain man, Animal trapping, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th century. He was known as Old Gabe in his later years. He was from the Bridger family of Virginia, English settlers who had arrived in North America in the early Colony of Virginia, colonial period. Bridger was of the second generation of American mountain men and pathfinders who followed the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–1806. He participated in early expeditions into the west and mediated between Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribes and westward-migrating European Americans, European-American settlers. By the end of his life, he had become the foremost explorer and frontiersmen in the American frontier, American Old West. He had conversational knowledge of French, Spanish, and several Indigenous languages of the Americas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porter Hall
Clifford Porter Hall (September 19, 1888 – October 6, 1953) was an American character actor known for appearing in a number of films in the 1930s and 1940s. Hall typically played villains or comedic incompetent characters. Early years Hall was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, W.A. Hall, headed a cooperage business that ended because of prohibition in the United States. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati, Hall worked for the Fleischmann Company while also directing and acting in little theater productions in Cleveland. Career Hall's Broadway credits included ''The Great Gatsby'' (1926), ''Naked'' (1926), ''Loud Speaker'' (1927), ''Night Hostess'' (1928), ''It's a Wise Child'' (1929), ''Collision'' (1932), ''The Warrior's Husband'' (1932), ''The Dark Tower'' (1933), ''The Red Cat'' (1934). Hall made his film debut in the 1931 drama '' Secrets of a Secretary''. His last onscreen appearance was in the 1954 film '' Return to Treasure Island'', which was rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Moore (actor)
Michael Lang Moorehouse (May 28, 1925 – February 4, 1998) was an American actor. He was known for playing the role of "Sgt. Manfredi" in the 1953 film ''Stalag 17''. Career Moore was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He began his career in 1943, first appearing in the film '' We've Never Been Licked'', where he played the uncredited role of a student. He then played the role of "Bill Taff" in the 1951 film '' Silver City'', after Moore came back into acting. Moore starred in the 1952 film '' The Atomic City'', where he played the role of "Russ Farley", in which he starred with Gene Barry, Lydia Clarke, Nancy Gates and Lee Aaker. Moore played the role of "Robert Clayton" in the 1953 film '' Jamaica Run''. He also played the role of "Rance Hastings" in the film ''Pony Express''. Moore appeared in films such as '' Little Boy Lost'' and '' The Desperate Hours'' and television programs such as ''Death Valley Days'' and '' The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin''. He played the role of Sgt. K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an international border with the Mexico, Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With almost 40million residents across an area of , it is the List of states and territories of the United States by population, largest state by population and List of U.S. states and territories by area, third-largest by area. Prior to European colonization of the Americas, European colonization, California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America. European exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the colonization by the Spanish Empire. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821, following Mexican War of Independence, its successful war for independence, but Mexican Cession, was ceded to the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacramento
Sacramento ( or ; ; ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers in Northern California's Sacramento Valley, Sacramento's 2020 population of 524,943 makes it the fourth-most populous city in Northern California, the sixth-most populous in the state, the ninth-most populous state capital, and the 35th most populous city in the United States. Sacramento is the seat of the California Legislature and the governor of California. Sacramento is also the cultural and economic core of the Greater Sacramento area, which at the 2020 census had a population of 2,680,831, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in California. Before the arrival of the Spanish, the area was inhabited by the Nisenan, Maidu, and other indigenous peoples of California. In 1808, Spanish cavalryman Gabriel Moraga surveyed and named the ''Río del Santísimo Sacramento'' (Sacramento River), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missouri
Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it borders Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. At 1.5 billion years old, the St. Francois Mountains are among the oldest in the world. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center and into the Mississippi River, which makes up the eastern border. With over six million residents, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 19th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Springfield, Missouri, Springfield, and Columbia, Missouri, Columbia. The Cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Joseph, Missouri
St. Joseph is a city in and county seat of Buchanan County, Missouri, Buchanan County, Missouri, United States. A small portion of the city extends north into Andrew County, Missouri, Andrew County. Located on the Missouri River, it is the principal city of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buchanan County, Missouri, Buchanan, Andrew County, Missouri, Andrew, and DeKalb County, Missouri, DeKalb counties in Missouri and Doniphan County, Kansas, Doniphan County, Kansas. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, St. Joseph had a total population of 72,473, making it the List of cities in Missouri, 8th most populous city in the state, and the 3rd most populous in Northwest Missouri. St. Joseph is located roughly thirty miles north of the Kansas City, Missouri, city limits and approximately south of Omaha, Nebraska. The city was named after the town's founder Joseph Robidoux IV, Joseph Robidoux and the biblical Saint Joseph. St. Joseph is home to Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
