Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #130221 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-02-17
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 110 minutes

Customer Reviews

Public Domain Masterpiece
This movie can be bought at most discount stores for $1, however these are very poor copies. Stay away from any movie that lists Ronald Reagan as the star. I recommend you buy the Marengo double feature version. It's been restored and you get two movies for the price of one.

Directed by Michael Curtiz, this movie has an all star cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havalin, Raymond Massey, Van Heflen and Ronald Reagan. This a pre- Civil War movie and not a western. Great acting but a plot that is not considered politially correct. This movie favors the South with Errol Flynn playing the hero, JEB Stuart. It traces his life from when he graduates from West Point to Harper's Ferry. Probably the most glaring mistake historially, is that Stuart graduated from West Point in 1854 and George Custer graduated in 1861, after the Civil War started. Stuart was involved in Bleeding Kansas, and Harper's Ferry, but George Custer wasn't present any of these events and there is no evidence that they were friends. Raymond Massey was brilliant as a crazed John Brown (remember this is a Southern point of view) and some effort was made to make him look like the person. However, there was no effort to make Flynn look like Stuart nor Reagan to look like Custer. JEB has light Austrailian accent (like Flynn). Olivia is very good as Kit Carson Halliday.

Santa Fe Trail
The movie itself is great, lots of fun to watch. However, my reason for purchasing it was to see the credits at the end. My gr-gr-grandfather's name appears in the credits in other versions of this movie, and I purchased 3 copies to share with siblings. Alas, there were no credits at the end - none whatsoever. The movie was good - refreshing and enjoyable.

Interesting John Brown movie
Santa Fe Trail is a Hollywood production of chasiing John Brown through Kansas and finally capturing him in Harpers Ferry in 1859. This Black and White epic takes much poetic license with what actually happened, but is a fun movie to watch. Raymond Massey is great as John Brown. I use the movie in my John Brown class. If you want the real story of what happened at Harpers Ferry and John Brown's capture, check out my book a historical novel "The Perfect Steel Trap Harpers Ferry 1859".