Utah Wagon Train

October. 14,1951      
Rating:
6.6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Rancher Rex Allen receives a summons from his uncle. an old time frontiersman, that he is in trouble. The uncle has been hired to lead a modern-day band of adventurers on a wagon train retracing the route taken by their ancestors 100 years ago. Before Rex can talk to his uncle, the uncle is murdered, and Rex sets out to find the killer and the motive by taking his uncle's place as the leader of the wagon train.

Rex Allen as  Rex Allen
Koko as  Koko, Rex Allen's Horse (as Koko the Miracle Horse of the Movies)
Buddy Ebsen as  'Snooper' Trent
Penny Edwards as  Nancy Bonner
Roy Barcroft as  Hank Driscoll
Sarah Padden as  Sarah Wendover
Grant Withers as  Red Bancroft
Arthur Space as  Robert Hatfield
Robert Karnes as  Henchman Jack Scully
Stanley Andrews as  Sheriff

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Reviews

Smartorhypo
1951/10/14

Highly Overrated But Still Good

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BelSports
1951/10/15

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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Hadrina
1951/10/16

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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filippaberry84
1951/10/17

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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