Santa Fe Trail is a 1940 western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Despite glaring historical inaccuracies, the film was one of the top-grossing films of the year, being the seventh Flynn-de Havilland collaboration. The film also has nothing to do with its namesake, the famed Santa Fe Trail. Instead, it follows the life of Jeb Stuart, a cavalry commander (and future Confederate Army general). The film entered the public domain in the mid-1990s.

Plot

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The film loosely follows the life of J.E.B. Stuart (Errol Flynn) before the outbreak of the American Civil War. Among its sub-plots include a romance with the fictional Kit Carson Holliday (Olivia de Havilland), friendship with George Armstrong Custer (Ronald Reagan), and battles against abolitionist John Brown (Raymond Massey).

Cast

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• Errol Flynn as James "Jeb" Stuart
• Olivia de Havilland as Kit Carson Holliday
• Raymond Massey as John Brown
• Ronald Reagan as George Armstrong Custer
• Alan Hale as Tex Bell
• William Lundigan as Bob Holliday
• Van Heflin as Carl Rader
• Gene Reynolds as Jason Brown
• Henry O'Neill as Cyrus K. Holliday
• Guinn Williams as Windy Brody
• Alan Baxter as Oliver Brown
• Moroni Olsen as Robert E. Lee

External links

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1940 films | American films | Warner Bros. films | Western films | War films | Romance films | Public domain films