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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404969919
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1404969918
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: September 06, 2005
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 13138
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: April 01, 1951
Editorial Review:
Description:
In this rousing, action-packed post-Civil War adventure, legendary Western hero Randolph Scott stars as Britt Canfield, the eldest of four brothers who have seen their family's Virginia plantation stolen by carpetbaggers. With no choice but to start over, Britt accepts a position to help build the Yankee-funded Santa Fe railroad, where the straight-shooting ex-Confederate takes on superstitious Indians, crooked gamblers, vengeful war widows, and most dangerous of all, his three brothers, vicious Yankee haters who'll stop at nothing to prevent the completion of the Santa Fe. Even if it means killing their own brother.
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The directorial career of Irving Pichel (pronounced peekl) ran from the Cooper-and-Schoedsack specials The Most Dangerous Game (1932) and She (1935) to a couple of religious productions in 1953-54; it peaked with the wartime dramas The Pied Piper (1942) and The Moon Is Down (1943). Pichel also kept busy as a character actor (e.g., the towering manservant Sandor in Dracula's Daughter). But his most indelible cinematic contributions went uncredited: it is Pichel's carillon of a voice that narrates the John Ford classics How Green Was My Valley (1941) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon(1949).
That voice is heard at the beginning of Pichel's own Santa Fe, seeking to graft Ford-style allegory onto a formulaic tale of post-Civil War animosities and railroad-building. Randolph Scott (hero of She 25 years earlier) plays a former Confederate officer who, in a charmingly daft moment, lurches onto a rolling flatcar while fleeing vindictive Union veterans and finds himself recruited by the Santa Fe Railroad. His three brothers, refusing to 'work for Yankees,' desert him and turn more or less accidental outlaws. Scott is supposed to be torn between loyalty to his blood kin and loyalty to his employer (Warner Anderson, later of TV's The Line-Up)--also his rival for the affections of the war widow (Janis Carter) whose Union-officer husband was killed in a battle with Scott's Rebs. But the script is piecemeal and the individual scenes flatfooted. Sole exception: an out-of-the-blue fiddling contest (!) in a mountain pass, which both exacerbates and helps resolve a desperate crisis for Scott. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - More a staple than a routine!
Synopsis: Irving Pichel, well-known Hollywood narrator and director is in charge as Hollywood western legend Randolph Scot stars in Santa Fe.
Scott stars as Britt Canfield the eldest of four ex-confederate brothers who have lost the estate and are in Missouri seeking a new life. They have an inevitable altercation with drunk Yankees and must flee. Scott ends up on a train carrying laborers to the equally legendary Atichison, Topka and Santa Fe. He becomes a railway construction boss ... Read More
Rating:  - Santa Fe
First don't grade me on spelling.I am an ol cowboy.Randolph Scott is a cowboys cowboy.I can say most if not all the picture is filmed on location.Stunning scenery as most of Mr. Scotts movies are.I enjoyed this movie very much.
I would like to say movie reveiwers are just that.If you like R.Scott movies chances are you will enjoy this movie.The pop corn is on me
Rating: - Low rent "Union Pacific"
This 1951 movie is among the weakest in which Randolph Scott starred and this in no way down to the man himself as he is in prime form, giving his usual strong performance .It is rather down to weaknesses in the rest of the package .
Scott plays Britt Canfield the eldest of 4 brothers ,all Confederate Army veterans drifting in the West after they lost the family possessions in the conflict .In addition to Britt ,there are Terry(Jerome Courtland),Tom (Peter M Thompson),and Clint (John Archer).After ... Read More
Rating: - "Santa Fe (1951) ... Randolph Scott ... Columbia Pictures Classic Westerns"
Columbia Pictures presents "SANTA FE" (1951) (87 mins/Color) (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Starring Randolph Scott, Janis Carter, Jerome Courtland, Peter M. Thompson & John Archer --- Directed by Irving Pichel and released in April 1, 1951, our story line and film, Set in the years following the Civil War, the film centres on Britt Canfield, one of four ex-Confederate brothers who head West to carve out a new life. While his three siblings cast their lot on the wrong side of the law, Britt accepts a job ... Read More
Rating: - Okay, middle of the tracks Randolph Scott Santa Fe Railroad Drama from 1951
In the aftermath of Civil War Britt Canfield (Randolph Scott) the eldest of four brothers late of the Confederate Army head west from Virginia looking for a fresh start. In a small town saloon they run into a small bunch of ex Union soldiers following a few hot words shooting breaks out and one of the Union soldiers is killed. The brothers escape the town and with luck manage to get on board a Santa Fe Railroad flatcar taking new recruits for laying tracks from Topeka across Kansas to the Colorado border. Britt ... Read More
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