Saddle Legion

Saddle Legion is a 1951 Western film directed by Lesley Selander and starring Tim Holt.[2][3] It co-stars Dorothy Malone, who was one of Holt's most prestigious co-stars.[4] She was borrowed from Warner Bros.[5]

Saddle Legion
Directed byLesley Selander
Produced byHerman Schlom
Written byEd Earl Repp
StarringTim Holt
Dorothy Malone
Music byPaul Sawtell
Constantin Bakaleinikoff
CinematographyJ. Roy Hunt
Edited byDesmond Marquette
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • April 20, 1951 (1951-04-20) (US)[1]
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

When a town drunk, Gabe, causes a cattle stampede, then shoots the rancher who fires him, cowboys Dave and Chito bring him to a new doctor in town, Dr. Ann Rollins, and then to justice after Gabe conspires with wealthy Ace Kelso and other rustlers.

Cast

Notes

According to film scholar Tom Stempel, Malone was "the most interesting actress" to appear in a Tim Holt Western:

The other women in the B westerns tended to be cute rather than sexy, but Malone's look and voice were sex personified. So when Chito flirts with her Ann, Malone is way beyond that kind of B western cuteness ... Malone's sexual presence upsets the usual dynamics of the B westerns, and the filmmakers may have realized that Malone's Ann would have eaten Martin's Chito alive ... [In the final scene] As he and Tim leave to take the cattle to market, Chito says to Ann, "You make sure you wait until I come back." Since the end of the Holt westerns usually involved Chito running or riding away from girl who wants to marry him, the ending of Saddle Legion is a little more adult.[6]

References

  1. "Saddle Legion: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
  2. "Saddle Legion (1951) – Overview – TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
  3. Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin (1982). The RKO Story. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House. p. 256.
  4. Schallert, Edwin (July 13, 1950). "Martin, Lewis Hitting Fast Film Stride; Jock O'Mahoney Series Star". Los Angeles Times. p. B9.
  5. THOMAS F. BRADY (July 13, 1950). "FOX WILL REMAKE 'BERKELEY SQUARE': Studio Plans New Version of Balderston's Play--Tyrone Power to Have Lead Of Local Origin". New York Times. p. 31.
  6. "Tim Holt and the B Western".


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