“Dodge City” is a classic western drama where Errol Flynn plays a Texas cattle agent who takes over the job of sheriff in an extremely lawless town called Dodge City, Kansas. He must content with cattle barons and townsfolk alike who are used to doing as they please without oversight from the law. Director Michael Curtiz (“Life with Father” 1947) put together an excellent drama which features the popular Flynn and co-star Olivia de Havilland.
Robert Buckner penned the fine screenplay which gave excellent dialogue to Flynn, de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale, Henry Travers, Henry O’Neill, Gloria Holden, Ward Bond, and Clem Bevans as the barber. The watchable horse opera “Dodge City” was the seventh highest grossing film of 1939 for producer Hal B. Wallis and 20th Century Fox. Flynn and de Havilland starred in eight pictures together from 1935 to 1941, this one filmed in beautiful Technicolor, in Wildwood Regional Park and other sites in Ventura County, California.
Dodge City (1939)
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My Review
“Dodge City” is a classic western drama where Errol Flynn plays a Texas cattle agent who takes over the job of sheriff in an extremely lawless town called Dodge City, Kansas. He must content with cattle barons and townsfolk alike who are used to doing as they please without oversight from the law. Director Michael Curtiz (“Life with Father” 1947) put together an excellent drama which features the popular Flynn and co-star Olivia de Havilland.
Robert Buckner penned the fine screenplay which gave excellent dialogue to Flynn, de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale, Henry Travers, Henry O’Neill, Gloria Holden, Ward Bond, and Clem Bevans as the barber. The watchable horse opera “Dodge City” was the seventh highest grossing film of 1939 for producer Hal B. Wallis and 20th Century Fox. Flynn and de Havilland starred in eight pictures together from 1935 to 1941, this one filmed in beautiful Technicolor, in Wildwood Regional Park and other sites in Ventura County, California.