Dodge City
by Michael Curtiz, Tex Avery
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Actor: Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Errol Flynn, Frank McHugh, Olivia de HavillandDirector: Michael Curtiz, Tex Avery
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Gordon Hollingshead
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Writer: Crane Wilbur
Writer: Rich Hogan
Writer: Robert Buckner
Writer: Robert W. Service
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Dodge City
DVD Review: A RARE 1939 WESTERN CLASSIC! IN COLOR
Summary: 5 Stars
Dodge City is a western movie starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Directed by Hungarian-turned-Hollywood filmmaker Michael Curtiz and based on a story by Robert Buckner, it was filmed in early Technicolor. As a classic western, Dodge City contains -- with the possible exception of an attack by hostile Red Indians -- all the stock ingredients and clichés the genre has usually been associated with. It chronicles the rise, after the end of the Civil War, of the small frontier post of Dodge City, Kansas to civilized and respectable town and trading place for cattle. In the process, Dodge City has to get rid of the baddies terrorizing the citizens, and it takes a new sheriff and his deputy to clean up the town and introduce law and orderThe action of the film starts with Colonel Dodge arriving on the first train and subsequently opening the new railroad line that links Dodge City with the rest of the world. A few years later, Dodge City has turned into the "longhorn cattle center of the world and wide-open Babylon of the American frontier, packed with settlers, thieves and gunmen -- the town that knew no ethics but cash and killing". In particular, it is Jeff Surrett and his gang who kill, steal, cheat and, generally, control life in Dodge City without ever being brought to justice. As Surrett has installed one of his puppets as sheriff, the other citizens' hands are tied when it comes to arresting any of the evildoers.
Dodge's friend Wade Hatton, a lone cowboy who was instrumental in bringing the railroad to Dodge City, is now on his way to the town leading a trek of settlers from the East coast. At Hatton's side is his old companion Rusty, who is prepared to stay with him through thick and thin. Among the settlers are beautiful Abbie Irving and her irresponsible brother, who, drunk, causes a stampede and is shot by Hatton in self-defense. When the group arrive in Dodge City, Hatton is confronted with the full extent of the anarchy which is dictating everyday life there. Asked by anxious citizens -- Abbie's uncle among them -- to be the new sheriff, Hatton politely declines, saying he is not cut out for this kind of job.
Hatton changes his mind when, during a school outing, a young boy is inadvertently killed by Surrett and his men. The new sheriff and his deputy -- Rusty of course -- have a hard time not just fighting the criminals but also convincing all the farmers who have been wronged by Surrett that mob rule ("Come on, boys, let's take 'em out to the plaza") is out of the question: When Yancy, one of Surrett's thugs, is in jail, Hatton has to protect him against the furious men outside who, not caring for Yancy's right to a fair trial, want to take the law into their own hands and lynch him right then and there.
In the end Hatton succeeds in both overwhelming and catching the baddies and winning Abbie's heart. Everything has been prepared for a quiet family life in newly civilized Dodge City, but Hatton is asked by Colonel Dodge to clean up Virginia City, Nevada, another railroad town more dangerous than Dodge City had ever been. Understanding how much Wade is needed to settle the West, a loving Abbie heartily suggests she and her new husband join the next wagon train for their new life together.
Memorable scenes
The railroad as a symbol of progress: a race between the Iron Horse and the old stagecoach which has served Dodge City for decades but whose time is now over
Rusty attending a meeting of the "Pure Prairie League of Dodge City", a gathering of elderly women strongly associated with the temperance movement. (The organization may have been the source of the name for the 1970s and 80s band of the same name).
A saloon brawl, triggered by a party of Confederate veterans ("My Heart Turns Back to Dixie") -- the North against the South, a decade after the end of the Civil War. Actress Ann Sheridan loses the top of her dress while falling off a chair in the scene.
The editor of the Dodge City Star, trying to be brave and publishing an exposé about Surrett and his evil machinations, being murdered by Yancy -- investigative journalism and its bitter consequences
A speeding train on fire -- the final shoot-out.
Wade, Abby, and Rusty's daring escape out of the burning box car.
Errol Flynn as Wade taking a fall and having a gate bounce off the back of his head in the newspaper office
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