Friday 8pm -SANTA FE TRAIL - A 1940 American western film starring , and . In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.
After graduating from West Point, Jeb Stuart and George Custer are both stationed to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Once there, they find that the violent abolitionist John Brown has laid waste to the state, killing anyone who gets in the way of his anti-slavery crusade. While the duo must work together to battle the murderous revolutionary, they also come to blows over their competing love for Kit Carson Holliday
TRIVIA:
- The film was one of the top-grossing films of the year, and the seventh Flynn鈥揹e Havilland collaboration. Its content has little relevance to the actual .
- got the part of George Custer on the strength of his success playing George Gipp in (1940).
- recalled that former flame behaved badly towards her onset (she was dating and believed Flynn was jealous).
- Aptly enough, the movie made its world premiere in Santa Fe, NM.
