James Warren (Adam Lariott), Richard Martin (Chito Rafferty), Audrey Long (Jeanie Collinshaw), Robert Barrat (Jim Collinshaw), Robert Clarke (Jay Collinshaw), Harry Wood (Guerd Eliott), Minerva Urecal (Mama Rafferty), Harry D. Brown (Rafferty), Tommy Cook (Chito as a boy), Harry McKim (Adam as a boy), Jason Robards (saloon owner/dealer), Fred Aldrich, Ethan Laidlaw, Sam Lufkin, Sammy Shack, Lou Palfy (gamblers), Cecil Stewart (piano player), Larry Wheat (station master), Nan Leslie, Tanis Chandler, Jimmy Jordan (bits), Gordon Jones (sherioff), Allan Lee (stage driver), Dick Elliott (turnkey and records clerk), Myrna Dell (gambler's girl), Sammy Blum (bartender), Beverly Bushe (girl), Budd Buster (hotel proprietor).
Directors: WALLACE GRISSELL, EDWARD KILLY. Screenplay: Norman Houston. Based on the 1923 novel by Zane Grey. Photography: Harry J. Wild. Film editor: J.R. Whittredge. Art directors: Albert S. D'Agostino and Lucius Croxton. Set decorator: Darrell Silvera. Music: Paul Sawtell, Roy Webb. Music director: Constantin Bakaleinikoff. Dialogue director: Leslie Urbach. Assistant director: Sam Ruman. Sound recording: Richard Van Hessen, Roy Granville. RCA Sound System. Producer: Herman Schlom. Executive producer: Sid Rogell.
Copyright 28 September 1945 by RKO-Radio Pictures, Inc. New York opening at the Gotham: 28 September 1945. U.S. release: 18 October 1945. U.K. release: 26 August 1946. Australian release: 9 May 1946. 6,194 feet. 67 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: An orphan, raised by a kindly sheepherder, seeks out the murderer of his father.
NOTES: The Zane Grey novel was first filmed in 1924 and again in 1935. It's of little use making cast comparisons with this movie, except to say that Jack Holt played Adam in the silent feature, while Dean Jagger essayed the role in 1935.
COMMENT: I came late for this one, just as the credits had finished unfolding. It was obviously an RKO picture. The glossy photography, the pleasing music score both attested to the superiority of the RKO "B" product. Soon, I was equally certain that the screenplay was written by Norman Houston. The leisurely pace and the ingratiatingly well- rounded characters were definitely products of Houston's pen.
But I couldn't pick the director. The staging was too fluid for Lesley Selander, but the fine cinematography seemed like the work of Harry J. Wild.
I recognized James Warren as the hero and Richard Martin in his third outing of what was to become a customary role. (Martin first played Chito in Bombardier in 1943 and then in Nevada in 1944).
The lovely heroine was that spirited lass, Audrey Long.
All told I got almost everything right. And no wonder I could not pick the director. Two people were involved – neither of them particularly distinguished!
Directors: WALLACE GRISSELL, EDWARD KILLY. Screenplay: Norman Houston. Based on the 1923 novel by Zane Grey. Photography: Harry J. Wild. Film editor: J.R. Whittredge. Art directors: Albert S. D'Agostino and Lucius Croxton. Set decorator: Darrell Silvera. Music: Paul Sawtell, Roy Webb. Music director: Constantin Bakaleinikoff. Dialogue director: Leslie Urbach. Assistant director: Sam Ruman. Sound recording: Richard Van Hessen, Roy Granville. RCA Sound System. Producer: Herman Schlom. Executive producer: Sid Rogell.
Copyright 28 September 1945 by RKO-Radio Pictures, Inc. New York opening at the Gotham: 28 September 1945. U.S. release: 18 October 1945. U.K. release: 26 August 1946. Australian release: 9 May 1946. 6,194 feet. 67 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: An orphan, raised by a kindly sheepherder, seeks out the murderer of his father.
NOTES: The Zane Grey novel was first filmed in 1924 and again in 1935. It's of little use making cast comparisons with this movie, except to say that Jack Holt played Adam in the silent feature, while Dean Jagger essayed the role in 1935.
COMMENT: I came late for this one, just as the credits had finished unfolding. It was obviously an RKO picture. The glossy photography, the pleasing music score both attested to the superiority of the RKO "B" product. Soon, I was equally certain that the screenplay was written by Norman Houston. The leisurely pace and the ingratiatingly well- rounded characters were definitely products of Houston's pen.
But I couldn't pick the director. The staging was too fluid for Lesley Selander, but the fine cinematography seemed like the work of Harry J. Wild.
I recognized James Warren as the hero and Richard Martin in his third outing of what was to become a customary role. (Martin first played Chito in Bombardier in 1943 and then in Nevada in 1944).
The lovely heroine was that spirited lass, Audrey Long.
All told I got almost everything right. And no wonder I could not pick the director. Two people were involved – neither of them particularly distinguished!