When the Daltons Rode (1940)

Note Générale:

6,8/10   

Réalisateur:

George Marshall

Scénaristes:

Emmett Dalton (book)
Jack Jungmeyer (book)

Date de sortie:

1 février 1941 (Sweden)

Genre:

Western

Intrigue:

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons...

Plot Keywords:

Train | Based On Book | Character Name In Title

Avis des utilisateurs:

Have fun with the Daltons

Ensemble

Randolph Scott	...	Tod Jackson
Kay Francis	...	Julie King
Brian Donlevy	...	Grat Dalton
George Bancroft	...	Caleb Winters
Broderick Crawford	...	Bob Dalton
Stuart Erwin	...	Ben Dalton
Andy Devine	...	Ozark Jones
Frank Albertson	...	Emmett Dalton
Mary Gordon	...	Ma Dalton
Harvey Stephens	...	Rigby
Edgar Dearing	...	Sheriff (as Edgar Deering)
Quen Ramsey	...	Clem Wilson
Dorothy Granger	...	Nancy (as Dorothy Grainger)
Robert McKenzie	...	Photographer (as Bob McKenzie)
Fay McKenzie	...	Hannah

Durée:

81 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Rapport de forme:

1,37 : 1

Son:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Classification:

Finland:S | Sweden:15

Lieux de tournage:

California, USA

Société:

Universal Pictures

Connexions:

figure dans Gunfighters of the Old West (1992) (V)

Have fun with the Daltons

Most films about outlaws made in the fifties and before had in common a certain sadness, because you knew from the beginning that the outlaw hero was doomed. You would suffer with him, knowing there was no hope, that he would die at the end. This film has a different approach, the hero here is Randolph Scott and he is not one of the Daltons, just a friend of them, he is even a rival of Bob Dalton (Broderick Crawford) in relation to Julie King (Kay Francis). So the whole fun of the film is on the great action scenes where the Daltons do one incredible thing after another. They just don't stop, they go from a bank robbery to a train robbery where the law is waiting for them inside the train. Mary Gordon as Ma Dalton is remarkable. The fact that you can follow the Daltons without getting emotionally involved, makes this an unusual, enjoyable western, more cheerful than most of its kind.