Dodge City [Blu-ray]

Overview

This landmark western -- which, along with Stagecoach, has often been credited with revitalizing what had become a stagnant genre -- stars Errol Flynn as Wade Hatton, a cattle man who arrives in the frontier community of Dodge City, which is overrun by footloose cowboys and outlaws. When Hatton helps Dodge City lawmen capture a gang of cattle rustlers led by Jeff Surrett (Bruce Cabot), he's asked to help guide a wagon train into town with his friends Rusty Hart (Alan Hale, Sr.) and Tex Baird (Guinn Williams). En route, an impulsive young cowpoke named Lee Irving (William Lundigan) needlessly fires off his pistol, sparking a cattle stampede that leads to his death. When Hatton and his men arrive in Dodge, they discover Surrett is once again at large, and his gang has taken over the city. Appointed the city's new sheriff, Hatton is determined to clean up the town and put the outlaws out of business. In his rare moments off duty, Hatton tries to win the affections of Abbie Irving (Olivia de Havilland), but she believes that Hatton is responsible for the death of her brother Lee; Hatton's habit of flirting with dance hall girl Ruby Gilman (Ann Sheridan) does nothing to improve her opinion of him. A solid box office hit, Dodge City was the first of a series of westerns for swashbuckling star Flynn; his next oater, Virginia City, followed in 1940.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/09/2015
UPC:	0883929447503
Original Release:	1939
Rating:	NR
Source:	Turner Classic Movie
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:44:00
Sales rank:	18,920

Special Features

Leonard Maltin hosts Warner Night at the Movies with The Oklahoma Kid Theatrical Trailer; Vintage Newsreel; Academy Award Winning Short Sons of Liberty and Dangerous Dan McFoo cartoon; Dodge City: Go West, Errol Flynn featurette; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Errol Flynn	Wade Hatton
Olivia de Havilland	Abbie Irving
Bruce Cabot	Jeff Surrett
Ann Sheridan	Ruby Gilman
Frank McHugh	Joe Clemens
John Litel	Matt Cole
Victor Jory	Yancy, Surrett's Henchman
Henry Travers	Dr. Irving
Henry O'Neill	Col. Dodge
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams	Tex Baird
Gloria Holden	Mrs. Cole
Douglas Fowley	Munger
William Lundigan	Lee Irving
Georgia Caine	Mrs. Ellen Irving
Charles Halton	Surrett's Lawyer
Ward Bond	Bud Taylor, Surrett's Henchman
Bobs Watson	Harry Cole
Nat Carr	Crocker
Russell Simpson	Orth
Clem Bevans	Charlie, the Barber
Cora Witherspoon	Mrs. McCoy
Joseph Crehan	Hammond
Thurston Hall	Twitchell
Chester Clute	Coggins
Monte Blue	Barlow, the Indian Agent
James Burke	Cattle Auctioneer
Robert E. Homans	Mail Clerk
George Guhl	Jaxon, the Marshal
Spencer Charters	Clergyman
Bud Osborne	Stagecoach Driver/Waiter
Pat O'Malley	Conductor
Wilfred Lucas	Bartender
Milton Kibbee	Printer,Printer
Vera Lewis	Woman
Ralph Sanford	Brawler
Merrill McCormack	Man
Fred Graham	Al
Henry Otho	Conductor
Richard Cramer	Clerk
Earle Hodgins	Spieler
Tom Chatterton	Passenger
Pat Flaherty	Cowhand
James Farley	Engineer
Jack Mower	Man at Funeral
Horace B. Carpenter	Train Passenger
Francis Sayles	Stage Shotgun Guard
William Crowell	Actor
Earl Dwire	Actor
Bob Stevenson	Actor
Bruce Mitchell	Actor,Actor
Hal Craig	Actor
George Chesebro	Townsman
Frank Pharr	Actor
Ed Peil Sr.	Actor
Frank Mayo	Actor
Guy Wilkerson	Man Wanting Revenge by Hanging
Steve Clark	Actor
Bette Davis	Queen Elizabeth I
Donald Crisp	Francis Bacon
Vincent Price	Sir Walter Raleigh
Henry Stephenson	Lord Burghley
Henry Daniell	Sir Robert Cecil
Ralph Forbes	Lord Knollys
Robert Warwick	Lord Mountjoy
Leo G. Carroll	Sir Edward Coke
Guy Bellis	Lord Charles Howard
Forrester Harvey	Bit Part
Holmes Herbert	Majordomo
I. Stanford Jolley	Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace
Doris Lloyd	Handmaiden
Rosella Towne	Lady of the Court
Maris Wrixon	Lady of the Court
Alan Hale Jr.	Rusty Hart
Alan Hale Sr.	Actor
Max Steiner	Composer
Erich Wolfgang Korngold	Composer

Technical Credits

Robert Buckner

Norman Reilly Raine

Aeneas MacKenzie

Maxwell Anderson

Michael Curtiz	Director
Robert Buckner	Screenwriter
Byron Haskin	Special Effects
Robert Lord	Producer
Hal B. Wallis	Executive Producer
Rex Wimpy	Special Effects
Norman Reilly Raine	Screenwriter
Aeneas MacKenzie	Screenwriter
Maxwell Anderson	Screenwriter
Nathan Levinson	Sound Effects
Jack Williams	Stunts
Oliver Garretson	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Not that he resembles James Arness one bit but Errol Flynn's crime fighting Sheriff Hatton in Dodge City is none other than Matt Dillon in all but name. And the burgeoning city depicted in this energetic Warner Bros. Western is indeed the lawless cow town of legend, what with the likes of Bruce Cabot and Victor Jory making life miserable for decent, God-fearing settlers. Director Michael Curtiz paints with a wide and colorful brush and Dodge City is the kind of virile entertainment where a mammoth barroom free-for-all rudely interrupts the temperance meeting taking place next door, a situation that allows recently chaste cattle driver Alan Hale to partake in both. There is also a stampede of cattle, a fiery climax on a hi-jacked train and the cowardly killing of little Bobs Watson to keep the action fan happy for a good 104 minutes of so. Which, needless to say, doesn't leave much space for feminine interest, supplied here by Olivia de Havilland (exceedingly good and ultimately brave) and Ann Sheridan (sort of "bad" by the mere fact that she is in the employ of evil Bruce Cabot). The latter, unfortunately, is completely wasted in the thankless role of the saloon belle but does get to warble a song or two. Overseeing it all with his usual authority, Curtiz has a couple of neat tricks up his sleeve, including a memorable sequence where Miss de Havilland spots an intruder by his shadow.

All Movie Guide - Hans J. Wollstein