| Cattle Drive | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Kurt Neumann |
| Written by | Lillie Hayward Jack Natteford |
| Produced by | Aaron Rosenberg |
| Starring | Joel McCrea Dean Stockwell Chill Wills Leon Ames Bob Steele |
| Cinematography | Maury Gertsman |
| Edited by | Danny B. Landres |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Universal International Pictures |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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.
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.
The basic story—about a rich brat who gets lost in a dangerous place far from home, then learns character and values from the working men who rescue him—echoes that of 1937's Oscar-winning film Captains Courageous, adapted from a novel by Rudyard Kipling.[1] 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.
A variation of the same plot was also used in Season 5, Episode 5 of Rawhide, Incident of the Prodigal Son and in Season 3, Episode 7 of The Virginian, Big Image... Little Man.
Parts of the film were shot in Paria, Utah, and Death Valley.[2]
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