Frontier Marshal (1939 film)
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Frontier Marshal | |
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Directed by | Allan Dwan |
Produced by | Sol M. Wurtzel |
Written by | Sam Hellman Stuart N. Lake (novel) |
Starring | Randolph Scott Cesar Romero John Carradine Nancy Kelly Lon Chaney, Jr. |
Cinematography | Charles G. Clarke |
Editing by | Fred Allen |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date(s) | ![]() |
Running time | 71 min. |
Country | US |
Language | English |
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Frontier Marshal is a 1939 western film starring Randolph Scott as legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. It is the second film based on Stuart N. Lake's highly fictionalized account of Earp, Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshall. An earlier version was made in 1934. Another version of the story was filmed by John Ford in 1946, My Darling Clementine, which included whole scenes reshot from the 1939 film.
Frontier Marshal co-stars Cesar Romero as "Doc Halliday", John Carradine, Nancy Kelly and Lon Chaney, Jr.. Ward Bond appears as the town marshal; Bond was also in the 1934 version, and later appears as Morgan Earp in Ford's film.
[edit] Cast
- Randolph Scott as Wyatt Earp
- Nancy Kelly as Sarah Allen
- Cesar Romero as Doc Halliday (name changed from "Holliday")
- Binnie Barnes as Jerry
- John Carradine as Ben Carter
- Edward Norris as Dan Blackmore
- Eddie Foy, Jr. as Eddie Foy
- Ward Bond as Town Marshal
- Lon Chaney, Jr. as Pringle