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Wikipedia article




'Cattle Drive' is a 1951 American Western film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell and Chill Wills. Much of the film was shot in the Death Valley National Park, California and Paria, Utah.

Plot



Chester Graham Jr. (Dean Stockwell), the spoiled young son of a wealthy railroad owner, gets lost in the middle of nowhere when he wanders away from a train during a water stop. He is found by a cowboy (Joel McCrea) who is part of a cattle drive. Lucky to be alive, the boy has to tag along with the cowboys. He learns the value of hard work, self-discipline and comradeship while working with the men on the trail to Santa Fe.

Influences



The basic storyabout a rich brat who gets lost in a dangerous place far from home, then learns character and values from the working men who rescue himechoes that of 1937's Oscar-winning film 'Captains Courageous', adapted from anovel by Rudyard Kipling. The key difference, besides the fact that the leading man does not get killed in the end, is that "Cattle Drive" is set in a desert area and not at sea.

Cast



* Joel McCrea as Dan Matthews

* Dean Stockwell as Chester Graham Jr.

* Chill Wills as Dallas

* Leon Ames as Chester Graham Sr.

* Henry Brandon as Jim Currie

* Howard Petrie as Cap

* Bob Steele as Charlie "Careless" Morgan

* Griff Barnett as Conductor O'Hara

Production



Parts of the film were shot in Paria, Utah, and Death Valley.

See also



*Cattle drive

References




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