Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail (1940)

  • 57% of users liked it
    (1,170 ratings)

Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a simplistic retelling of the John Brown legend, with Raymond Massey playing the famed abolitionist. The events leading up to the bloody confrontation between Brown and the US Army… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 50 min.
Directed By
Michael Curtiz
Written By
Robert Buckner
Genres
Western, Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance, Classics
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1940 Wide
On DVD
Feb 10, 1999

Critic Reviews

  • Louis Proyect, rec.arts.movies.reviews

    Racist and reactionary tripe whose closest relative is "Gone with the Wind".

  • Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

    Rousing John Brown story is really worth it with Reagan and Flynn.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Revels in its inaccuracies.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • jay n


    Semi fictional account of Bleeding Kansas and the pursuit of John Brown is skilled filmmaking but useless as any kind of historical document. Still for fans of Flynn and the Warner stock company an enjoyable enterprise. Olivia's part is negilible, as far as her films with Errol… More

  • moon r


    along w/ the always magnetic flynn and de havilland pairing, and costarring an unforgettable ex-president, this curious pre-ww2 piece about the pre-civil war (or "the wo-ah between the states!" as granny clampett used to quip) days is curiously and definitively southern in… More

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