Rating: NR
Genre: Western
Release Date: 09/06/2005
SubTitles: English/Japanese
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 87 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar

The creative team of producer Harry Joe Brown and star Randolph Scott turned out some of the best westerns of the 1950s, and Santa Fe is no exception. Set in the years following the Civil War, the film casts Scott as Britt Canfield, one of four ex-Confederate brothers who head West to carve out a new life. While his three siblings (Jerome Courtland, Peter Thompson and John Archer) cast their lot on the wrong side of the law, Britt accepts a job with the Santa Fe Railroad. Inevitably, Britt is obliged to bring his wayward brothers to justice, though he knows full well that the person responsible for their downfall is "untouchable" gambling boss Cole Sanders (Roy Roberts). In a well-staged climax, Britt squares accounts with the evil Sanders and his hulking henchman Crake (Jock O'Mahoney). Curiously, many TV prints of Santa Fe were processed with the soundtrack slightly out of sync with the action.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Randolph Scott - Britt Canfield
Janis Carter - Judith Chandler
Jerome Courtland - Terry Canfield
Peter Thompson - Tom Canfield
John Archer - Clint Canfield
Warner Anderson - Dave Baxter
Roy Roberts - Cole Sanders
Billy House - Luke Plummer
Olin Howland - Dan Dugan
Allene Roberts - Ella Sue
Harry Cording - Moore Legrande
Sven Hugo Borg - Swede Swanstrom
Frank Ferguson - Marshal Bat Masterson
Irving Pichel - Harned
Harry Tyler - Rusty
Paul E. Burns - Uncle Dick Wootton

Production:
Irving Pichel - Director
Harry Joe Brown - Producer
Gene Havlick - Editor
Kenneth Gamet - Screen Writer
Walter Holscher - Art Director
Charles Lawton - Cinematographer
Morris W. Stoloff - Musical Direction/Supervision
Louis Stevens - Screen Story
James Vance Marshall - Book Author