''Phantom Stallion'' is a 1954 American

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film directed by

Harry Keller Harry Keller (February 22, 1913 – January 19, 1987) was an American film editor, producer and director, who made a number of Western (genre), westerns and worked for many years at Republic Pictures and Universal Pictures. In 1958, Keller was ta ...

and starring

Rex Allen Rex Elvie Allen Sr. (December 31, 1920 – December 17, 1999), known as "The Arizona Cowboy", was an American film and television actor, singer and songwriter; he was also the narrator of many Disney nature and Western productions. For his cont ...

Carla Balenda Carla Balenda (born Sally Bliss; November 22, 1925 – April 9, 2024) was an American film and television actress. With a career spanning from the 1940s to the 1960s, she was one of the last surviving actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. ...

and

Slim Pickens Louis Burton Lindley Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), better known by his stage name Slim Pickens, was an American actor and rodeo performer. Starting off in the rodeo, Pickens took up acting, and appeared in dozens of movies and TV sho ...

.Pitts p.249 The film is credited as being the last

singing cowboy A singing cowboy was a subtype of the archetypal cowboy hero of early Western (genre), Western films. It references real-world campfire side ballads in the American frontier. The original cowboys sang of life on the trail with all the challenges, ...

Western. The film's

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was by

Frank Arrigo Frank Arrigo (1917–1977) was an American art director.Pitts p.159 He worked on more than a hundred and fifty films and television series during his career. From 1959 to 1971 he also directed episodes of several television series. Selected filmo ...

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as Rex Allen * Koko as Rex's Horse *

as Slim *

as Claire * Harry Shannon as Michael Reilly *

Don Haggerty Don Haggerty (July 3, 1914 – August 19, 1988) was an American actor of film and television. Early life and education Haggerty was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. Before he began appearing in films in 1947, Haggerty was a Brown University ...

as Foreman Gil * Peter Price as Tony Reilly *

Rosa Turich Rosa Turich (born Rosa Sinohui, June 9, 1903 – November 20, 1998) was an American film and television actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor perfo ...

as Lucretia *

Zon Murray Emery Zon Murray (April 13, 1910 – February 2, 1979) was an American actor. Death Zon Murray died in 1979. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Filmography * '' The El Paso Kid'' * '' Ghost of Hidden Valley ...

as Henchman * Charles La Torre as Escobar *

Rocky Shahan Rocky Shahan (March 4, 1919 – December 8, 1981) was an American actor and stuntman. He was a regular cast member of ''Rawhide''. In 1957, he had a rare integral & speaking part as Dodge’s stagecoach driver “Hank” in the ending of an epis ...

as Henchman

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Bibliography

* Pitts, Michael R. ''Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films''. McFarland, 2012.

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* 1954 films 1954 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films Films directed by Harry Keller Republic Pictures films Films about horses American black-and-white films 1950s English-language films 1950s American films English-language Western (genre) films {{1950s-US-Western-film-stub

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