Dodge City (1939)

Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot. A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.

Dodge City is a 1939 American western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Ann Sheridan.[4][5] Based on a story by Robert Buckner, the film is about a Texas cattle agent who witnesses the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City, Kansas and t

Dodge City and Stagecoach were released the same year and though featuring two very different plots, are both credited with breathing new life and legitimacy into the flagging western genre. Starring dashing Errol Flynn and beauteous Olivia de Havilland, Dodge City begins with a nailbiting race between a stagecoach and locomotive--representing the transition from the Old West to the new one. The story itself begins as an itinerant cattleman rides into the title town and ends up its appointed sheriff and assigned to rid the town of a troublesome villain and his outlaw gang. Along the way, he finds himself falling in love with a lovely saloon girl. The film's highlight is a barroom brawl that is so exciting and fast-paced that it set the standard for western movie bar fights in countless films to come.

A soldier of fortune takes on the corrupt boss of a Western town in Dodge City (1939), directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and Ann Sheridan.

Overview of Dodge City, 1939, directed by Michael Curtiz, with Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Ann Sheridan, at Turner Classic Movies

The pluses of 1939's Dodge City include Errol Flynn’s never-failing charm; Olivia de Havilland, in her fifth Flynn vehicle; three-strip Technicolor, warmly photographed by Sol Polito; and some rip-roaring action, highlighted by a standard-setting saloon brawl.

Errol Flynn, with Olivia de Havilland by his side, cleans up the wild West in Dodge City.

Michael Curtiz's epic Western stars Errol Flynn as Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff who tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

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