Fighting Caravans (1931)
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Directly after his successful screen teaming with Marlene Dietrich in Morocco, Gary Cooper returned to Paramount's "Zane Grey" western series with Fighting Caravans. Cooper is cast as Clint Belmet, a hell-raisin' frontiersman facing a misdemeanor jail term. To avoid arrest, Clint… More Directly after his successful screen teaming with Marlene Dietrich in Morocco, Gary Cooper returned to Paramount's "Zane Grey" western series with Fighting Caravans. Cooper is cast as Clint Belmet, a hell-raisin' frontiersman facing a misdemeanor jail term. To avoid arrest, Clint talks French-born Felice (Lily Damita) into posing as his wife. Having successfully eluded the Law, Clint joins a wagon train heading to California, with Felice in tow. He callously tells her that he expects to exercise his "husbandly" prerogative in bed, but changes his tune when he genuinely falls in love with the girl. Eventually, Clint assumes some responsibility for the first time in his life by becoming the wagon train's sole trail guide, rescuing the other passengers from the villainous machinations of gun-runner Lee Murdock (Fred Kohler). Several stock shots and outtakes from Fighting Caravans (retitled Blazing Arrows for television) later showed up in another Zane Grey series entry, Wagon Wheels (1934). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- David Burton, Otto Brower
- Written By
- Edward Paramore, Keene Thompson, Agnes Brand Leahy
- Genres
- Western, Action & Adventure, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Feb 1, 1931 Wide
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Cast
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Gary Cooper
as Clint Belmet
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Lili Damita
as Felice
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Ernest Torrence
as Bill Jackson
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Fred Kohler
as Lee Murdock
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Tully Marshall
as Jim Bridger
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Eugene Pallette
as Seth Higgins
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May Boley
as Jane
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Irving Bacon
as Barfly
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Frank Campeau
as Jeff Moffitt
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Chief John Big Tree
as Indian at Opening Scene
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Iron Eyes Cody
as Indian after Firewater
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Jane Darwell
as Pioneer Woman
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James Farley
as Amos
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Frank S. Hagney
as The Renegade
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Donald MacKenzie
as Gus
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Sid Saylor
as Charlie
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Harry Semels
as Brawler
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Eve Southern
as Faith
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Roy Stewart
as Couch
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E. Alyn Warren
as Barlow
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Charles Winninger
as Marshal
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James Marcus
as The Blacksmith
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Stanley "Tiny" Sandford
as Man at Wagon Train
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Merrill McCormick
as Townsman
