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Wells Fargo
TOGETHER THEY BUILD A CONTINENT! He lives the magnificent adventure that saves a country and she shares the adventures of the man she loves!
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
- Original title
- Wells Fargo
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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Jul 6, 2025 · via TMDB
Though it does capture a little of the pioneering spirit of the folks travelling west, it’s just too episodic and becomes even a bit dull. It gets off to a lively enough start as we meet “Ramsay” (Joel McCrae) who is bidding for a contract to shift goods from the east coast past the terminus of the railway and out into the rapidly populating wilderness. It’s while he is trying to prove he can get live oysters to the table that he encounters the broken down carriage of “Justine” (Frances Dee) and her mother (Mary Nash) and so soon has a little extra romantic impetus as his career starts to expand just as quickly as his network of deliveries. Along the way he has to compete with the postal service, ambitious competitors and marauding Apache but little prepares him for the impact of the Civil War. By now he is managing the service as far as California, and it’s their goldmines that are funding the Yankee army. This news isn’t wasted on the Confederacy who decide that these shipments could be diverted, and this puts their travels in even more danger as well as causing consternation at home with a family who might just have Johnny-Reb sympathies. When the story focuses on the adventure elements, it works fine. McCrae holds it together well enough as the stagecoach gets chased, burned and robbed. Sadly, though, as civilisation reaches the Pacific coast it rather stupefies those action scenes and replaces them with something altogether more mediocre.
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Joel McCrea
Ramsay MacKay
Bob Burns
Hank York, a wanderer
Frances Dee
Justine Pryor
Lloyd Nolan
Dal Slade
Henry O'Neill
Henry Wells
Mary Nash
Mrs. Pryor
Ralph Morgan
Nicholas Pryor
Johnny Mack Brown
Talbot Carter
Porter Hall
James Oliver
Clarence Kolb
John Butterfield
Robert Cummings
Dan Trimball, prospector
Granville Bates
Bradford, banker
Harry Davenport
Ingalls, banker
Frank Conroy
Ward, banker
Brandon Tynan
Edwards, newspaper publisher
Peggy Stewart
Alice MacKay
Bernard Siegel
Pawnee
Stanley Fields
Abe, prospector
Frank McGlynn Sr.
Lincoln
Ernie Adams
Miner
Erville Alderson
Marshal Sam
Sam Ash
Man with Beaver Hat
Gertrude Astor
Pioneer Woman
Frank Austin
Toothless Miner
Arthur Aylesworth
Southern Orator
Scotty Beckett
Young Nick Pryor
Hank Bell
Medical Attendant
Joseph E. Bernard
Customer
Barlowe Borland
Scottish Passenger
Wade Boteler
Ship Captain
Ed Brady
Prospector
Henry Brandon
Larry
Charles Brinley
Gambler
Fritzi Brunette
Pioneer Woman
James P. Burtis
Portly Gentleman
George Burton
Minor Role
Marie Burton
Pioneer Girl
Jimmy Butler
Nick Pryor Jr.
Lane Chandler
Tom - Wells Fargo Messenger
Spencer Charters
Jethro - Old Confederate
Ethel Clayton
Pioneer Woman
Irene Coleman
Pioneer Woman
D'Arcy Corrigan
Preacher
Ronnie Cosby
Ramsay MacKay Jr.
Nell Craig
Pioneer Woman
Richard Cramer
Miner
Sidney D'Albrook
Townsman
Hal K. Dawson
Ormsby - N.Y. Herald Correspondent
Richard Denning
Minor Role
Lester Dorr
Minor Role
Rex Downing
Child
Eddie Dunn
Ed Slocum - Stagecoach Driver
David Durand
Alex Trimball
Edward Earle
Mr. Padden
Oliver Eckhardt
Townsman
Fern Emmett
Mrs. Jenkins
Ann Evers
Pioneer Girl
Martin Faust
Minor Role
Al Ferguson
Southerner
Willie Fung
Wang - MacKay's Servant
Barney Furey
Bandit
Chester Gan
Chinese Workman
George Guhl
Passenger
Harry Hayden
Postal Clerk
Dell Henderson
Customer
Ben Hendricks Jr.
Sailor
Charles Herzinger
Wagon Train Driver
Herbert Heywood
Bartender
Mitchell Ingraham
Barber
Darby Jones
Black Man
Edward Keane
Salmon P. Chase - Secretary of the Treasury
Hazel Keener
Pioneer Woman
Gwen Kenyon
Pioneer Girl
Paul Kruger
Coachman
Jerry Larkin
Southerner
Edward LeSaint
Doctor
Jack Lindquist
Minor Role
Lucien Littlefield
San Francisco Postmaster
George Magrill
Northerner
Alphonse Martell
Headwaiter
Joyce Mathews
Pioneer Girl
Eric Mayne
Minor Role
Charles McAvoy
Miner
Robert McKenzie
U.S. Postmaster - Batavia, N.Y.
Mary Mersch
Pioneer Woman
Frank Mills
Minor Role
Howard M. Mitchell
Minor Role
Monte Montague
Prospector
Ferdinand Munier
Mr. Langley
Forbes Murray
Minor Role
Louis Natheaux
Jonathan - Proprietor
David Newell
Minor Role
Paul Newlan
Zachary 'Zeke' Martin
William H. O'Brien
Headwaiter
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Sea Captain
George Ovey
Townsman
Jack Perrin
Scout
Lee Phelps
Printer
Hal Price
Townsman
Cyril Ring
Minor Role
Buddy Roosevelt
First Lieutenant
Art Rowlands
Townsman
Cy Schindell
Minor Role
Harry Semels
Minor Role
Kathryn Sheldon
Captain's Wife
Charles Sherlock
Minor Role
Ernest Shields
Minor Role
Lee Shumway
Townsman
Pietro Sosso
Minor Role
Harry Strang
Minor Role
Charles Sullivan
Northerner
Elliott Sullivan
Minor Role
Hal Taliaferro
Minor Role
Jerry Tucker
Boy
Archie Twitchell
Man with Paper
Emmett Vogan
Merchant
Ruth Warren
Mrs. Andrews
Blue Washington
Sam - Coachman
Florence Wix
Pioneer Woman
Freeman Wood
Minor Role
Harry Woods
Timekeeper
Theodor Sparkuhl
Director of Photography
Edith Head
Costume Design
Frank Lloyd
Director
Howard Estabrook
Associate Producer
William LeBaron
Executive Producer
Frank Lloyd
Producer
Victor Young
Original Music Composer
Burton Lane
Songs
Loren L. Ryder
Sound Director
Stuart N. Lake
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Dec 31, 1937
