Saddle Legion

Saddle Legion is a 1951 Western film directed by Lesley Selander and starring Tim Holt.[2][3] It co-stars Dorothy Malone, who was one of Holt's most prestigious co-stars.[4] She was borrowed from Warner Bros.[5]

Saddle Legion
Directed by	Lesley Selander
Produced by	Herman Schlom
Written by	Ed Earl Repp
Starring	Tim Holt Dorothy Malone
Music by	Paul Sawtell Constantin Bakaleinikoff
Cinematography	J. Roy Hunt
Edited by	Desmond Marquette
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	April 20, 1951 (1951-04-20) (US)[1]
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

When a town drunk, Gabe, causes a cattle stampede, then shoots the rancher who fires him, cowboys Dave and Chito bring him to a new doctor in town, Dr. Ann Rollins, and then to justice after Gabe conspires with wealthy Ace Kelso and other rustlers.

Cast

• Tim Holt as Dave Saunders
• Dorothy Malone as Dr. Ann Rollins
• Richard Martin as Chito
• Movita Castaneda as Mercedes
• Mauritz Hugo as Ace Kelso
• James Bush as Gabe
• Robert Livingston as Regan – Henchman
• Cliff Clark as Fred Warren
• Stanley Andrews as Chief John Layton
• George J. Lewis as Mexican Police Captain
• Dick Foote as Sandy
• Robert J. Wilke as Hooker – Henchman
• Richard Martin as Chito Rafferty

Notes

According to film scholar Tom Stempel, Malone was "the most interesting actress" to appear in a Tim Holt Western:

The other women in the B westerns tended to be cute rather than sexy, but Malone's look and voice were sex personified. So when Chito flirts with her Ann, Malone is way beyond that kind of B western cuteness ... Malone's sexual presence upsets the usual dynamics of the B westerns, and the filmmakers may have realized that Malone's Ann would have eaten Martin's Chito alive ... [In the final scene] As he and Tim leave to take the cattle to market, Chito says to Ann, "You make sure you wait until I come back." Since the end of the Holt westerns usually involved Chito running or riding away from girl who wants to marry him, the ending of Saddle Legion is a little more adult.[6]

References

1. "Saddle Legion: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
2. "Saddle Legion (1951) – Overview – TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
3. Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin (1982). The RKO Story. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House. p. 256.
4. Schallert, Edwin (July 13, 1950). "Martin, Lewis Hitting Fast Film Stride; Jock O'Mahoney Series Star". Los Angeles Times. p. B9.
5. THOMAS F. BRADY (July 13, 1950). "FOX WILL REMAKE 'BERKELEY SQUARE': Studio Plans New Version of Balderston's Play--Tyrone Power to Have Lead Of Local Origin". New York Times. p. 31.
6. "Tim Holt and the B Western".

External links

• Saddle Legion on IMDb
• Saddle Legion at AllMovie
• Saddle Legion at the TCM Movie Database
• Saddle Legion at the American Film Institute Catalog