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Dodge City is a 1939 American Western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Ann Sheridan. 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 takes the job of sheriff
The movie opens with an Atcheson Topeka and Santa Fe train making its first run to Dodge City in 1866. However, Dodge City wasn't founded until 1871, and the ATSF line to Dodge City wasn't completed until 1872.
- (5.8K)
- Western
- Michael Curtiz
- 1939-04-08
Dodge City was filmed in Technicolor, a process that peaked in popularity from the early ‘30s to ‘50s. In short, a color negative loaded up in a standard camera replaced the 3-strip camera that produced black & white pictures.
Dodge City: 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.
Six years after the railroad puts Dodge City, Kansas, on the map, the town becomes the Babylon of the West. Run by Jeff Surrett, a man whose only interest is cash and killing, Dodge City is now a bastion of lawlessness.
- Michael Curtiz, Jo Graham, Sherry Shourds
- Errol Flynn
Dodge City (1939) In director Michael Curtiz' energetic landmark western from Warner Bros., about an Irish cowboy/Texas cattle agent (an ex-Confederate) who decided to become the sheriff in the lawless and anarchic cattle town of Dodge City, Kansas:
In 1866, Kansas, the American civil war has just finished and the armies disbanded. The building of the West begins, and in 1872, the new city of Dodge City is ruled by violence and shootings.
