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February 9th, 2006, 03:57 AM
SOMEWHERE IN SONORA
DIRECTED BY MACK V. WRIGHT
PRODUCED BY LEON SCHLESINGER
WARNER BROS
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INFORMATION FROM IMDb
Plot Summary
On their way to Sonora Mary Burton(Shirley Palmer) and Patsy Ellis(Ann Fay)are motoring through Arizona and stop in Twin Forks, and meet cowhand John Bishop(John Wayne)and his horse Duke(Duke the Miracle Horse.)John, preparing to drive a coach in the big stagecoach race,innocently says that with Mary pulling for him, the other coach will probably fall to pieces before it gets around the first curve.Unkinown to John, townsman with heavy bets on John's coach have tampered with the other coach which piles up in a horrible wreck.Circumstantial evidence and his own words points to John and he is jailed as the injured driver is carried off.Assuming his guilt Mary and Patsy motor on to meet up with Mary's father(Ralph Lewis)at his silver mine across the border in Mexico.Knowing he is innocent,John's employer Bob Leadly(Henry B. Wathall) and ranch hands Shorty(Bill Franey) and Riley(Frank Rice)spring John from jail and urge him to ride for somewhere in Sonora.John aks Leadly why he took such a chance on him and Leadly tells him of his own son,Bart(Paul Fix), who fell in with the wrong crowd and was falsely accused of murder.Bart is now across the border riding with the notorious outlaw Monte Black(J.P. McGowan)in the Brotherhood of Death, so named because anyone who tries to leave the gang is killed. John vows to bring Bart back to Arizona where he has been cleared of the crime, and is joined by Shorty and Riley, who tell him he has also been cleared by the recovery of the stage driver.In a Mexican cantina, the trio meets up again with Mary and Patsy, who have traded their car for a buckboard and the girl's still distrust him until he saves them when their wagon runs out of control, and Shorty and Riley set the record straight on John.John is told by Mary's father that the Mexican Rurales under Captain Ramirez(Joe Dominguez)have been pursuing Black's gang and, when one of Black's men is captured,learn the location of the gang's hideout.John rides out alone hoping to rescue Bart before the Rurales attack and Black, who was impressed at how John handled a saloon-full of Black's henchmen, takes him on as another gun.
The gang rides out to raid the mine office at Paloma but John sends "Duke" ahead and the wonder horse,
courtesy of stock footage of "Tarzan" from Ken Maynard's earlier "Somewhere in Sonora",beats the raiders to Paloma and pulls the warning-bells rope.The gang members that escape capture John and Bart but Duke(and Tarzan) again saves the day by leading the Rurales to the spot.Just curious, but who decided that a cast listing that didn't include the credited Duke the Miracle Horse could be "verified" as complete?
Summary written by Les Adams
Full Cast
John Wayne .... John Bishop
Duke .... Duke, John's horse
Henry B. Walthall .... Bob Leadly
Shirley Palmer .... Mary Burton
Ann Fay .... Patsy Ellis (as Ann Faye)
J.P. McGowan .... Monte Black
Paul Fix .... Bart Leadly
Ralph Lewis .... Mr. Kelly Burton
Frank Rice .... Riley
Billy Franey .... Shorty
Barney Beasley .... Barfly (uncredited)
Dick Botiller .... Crooked gambler's partner (uncredited)
Jim Corey .... Henchman (uncredited)
Art Dillard .... Henchman (uncredited)
Joe Dominguez .... Rurales Captain Ramon Ramirez (uncredited)
Frank Ellis .... Henchman Frank (uncredited)
Jack Evans .... Henchman (uncredited)
Bob Fleming .... Sheriff Charlie (uncredited)
Ray Henderson .... Barfly (uncredited)
Charles Le Moyne .... Barfly (uncredited)
G. Raymond Nye .... Crooked gambler (uncredited)
Bud Osborne .... Henchman (uncredited)
Glenn Strange .... Henchman (uncredited)
Slim Whitaker .... Henchman Bull (uncredited)
Blackie Whiteford .... Henchman (uncredited)
Writing Credits
Will Levington Comfort (story "Somewhere South in Sonora" in The Saturday Evening Post)
Joseph Anthony Roach (adaptation and dialogue) (as Joe Roach)
Produced
Sid Rogell .... associate producer
Leon Schlesinger .... producer
Original Music
Leo F. Forbstein
Cinematography
Ted D. McCord
Trivia
Using the name "Monte Black" as the villain was something of an in-joke at Warners,
where Monte Blue was a star during the silent era.
After sound came in, he was relegated to minor supporting roles at the studio,
albeit in some very good films like Casablanca (1942) and Key Largo (1948).
Memorable Quotes
Bob Leadly: [Talking about his missing son] A man was killed. Some of the men who were present seemed to think Bart was the guilty party. They found out later that he was innocent, but... Bart's gone.
John Bishop: Hung? Where is he? What happened?
Bob Leadly: I'm not sure, but I heard he was south - somewhere in Sonora, a bandit in the gang of Monte Black.
John Bishop: Monte Black?
Bob Leadly: Once a man joins that gang, he never comes out alive. It's known as the Brotherhood of Death.
Filming Locations
Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA
Sonora, California, USA
DIRECTED BY MACK V. WRIGHT
PRODUCED BY LEON SCHLESINGER
WARNER BROS
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INFORMATION FROM IMDb
Plot Summary
On their way to Sonora Mary Burton(Shirley Palmer) and Patsy Ellis(Ann Fay)are motoring through Arizona and stop in Twin Forks, and meet cowhand John Bishop(John Wayne)and his horse Duke(Duke the Miracle Horse.)John, preparing to drive a coach in the big stagecoach race,innocently says that with Mary pulling for him, the other coach will probably fall to pieces before it gets around the first curve.Unkinown to John, townsman with heavy bets on John's coach have tampered with the other coach which piles up in a horrible wreck.Circumstantial evidence and his own words points to John and he is jailed as the injured driver is carried off.Assuming his guilt Mary and Patsy motor on to meet up with Mary's father(Ralph Lewis)at his silver mine across the border in Mexico.Knowing he is innocent,John's employer Bob Leadly(Henry B. Wathall) and ranch hands Shorty(Bill Franey) and Riley(Frank Rice)spring John from jail and urge him to ride for somewhere in Sonora.John aks Leadly why he took such a chance on him and Leadly tells him of his own son,Bart(Paul Fix), who fell in with the wrong crowd and was falsely accused of murder.Bart is now across the border riding with the notorious outlaw Monte Black(J.P. McGowan)in the Brotherhood of Death, so named because anyone who tries to leave the gang is killed. John vows to bring Bart back to Arizona where he has been cleared of the crime, and is joined by Shorty and Riley, who tell him he has also been cleared by the recovery of the stage driver.In a Mexican cantina, the trio meets up again with Mary and Patsy, who have traded their car for a buckboard and the girl's still distrust him until he saves them when their wagon runs out of control, and Shorty and Riley set the record straight on John.John is told by Mary's father that the Mexican Rurales under Captain Ramirez(Joe Dominguez)have been pursuing Black's gang and, when one of Black's men is captured,learn the location of the gang's hideout.John rides out alone hoping to rescue Bart before the Rurales attack and Black, who was impressed at how John handled a saloon-full of Black's henchmen, takes him on as another gun.
The gang rides out to raid the mine office at Paloma but John sends "Duke" ahead and the wonder horse,
courtesy of stock footage of "Tarzan" from Ken Maynard's earlier "Somewhere in Sonora",beats the raiders to Paloma and pulls the warning-bells rope.The gang members that escape capture John and Bart but Duke(and Tarzan) again saves the day by leading the Rurales to the spot.Just curious, but who decided that a cast listing that didn't include the credited Duke the Miracle Horse could be "verified" as complete?
Summary written by Les Adams
Full Cast
John Wayne .... John Bishop
Duke .... Duke, John's horse
Henry B. Walthall .... Bob Leadly
Shirley Palmer .... Mary Burton
Ann Fay .... Patsy Ellis (as Ann Faye)
J.P. McGowan .... Monte Black
Paul Fix .... Bart Leadly
Ralph Lewis .... Mr. Kelly Burton
Frank Rice .... Riley
Billy Franey .... Shorty
Barney Beasley .... Barfly (uncredited)
Dick Botiller .... Crooked gambler's partner (uncredited)
Jim Corey .... Henchman (uncredited)
Art Dillard .... Henchman (uncredited)
Joe Dominguez .... Rurales Captain Ramon Ramirez (uncredited)
Frank Ellis .... Henchman Frank (uncredited)
Jack Evans .... Henchman (uncredited)
Bob Fleming .... Sheriff Charlie (uncredited)
Ray Henderson .... Barfly (uncredited)
Charles Le Moyne .... Barfly (uncredited)
G. Raymond Nye .... Crooked gambler (uncredited)
Bud Osborne .... Henchman (uncredited)
Glenn Strange .... Henchman (uncredited)
Slim Whitaker .... Henchman Bull (uncredited)
Blackie Whiteford .... Henchman (uncredited)
Writing Credits
Will Levington Comfort (story "Somewhere South in Sonora" in The Saturday Evening Post)
Joseph Anthony Roach (adaptation and dialogue) (as Joe Roach)
Produced
Sid Rogell .... associate producer
Leon Schlesinger .... producer
Original Music
Leo F. Forbstein
Cinematography
Ted D. McCord
Trivia
Using the name "Monte Black" as the villain was something of an in-joke at Warners,
where Monte Blue was a star during the silent era.
After sound came in, he was relegated to minor supporting roles at the studio,
albeit in some very good films like Casablanca (1942) and Key Largo (1948).
Memorable Quotes
Bob Leadly: [Talking about his missing son] A man was killed. Some of the men who were present seemed to think Bart was the guilty party. They found out later that he was innocent, but... Bart's gone.
John Bishop: Hung? Where is he? What happened?
Bob Leadly: I'm not sure, but I heard he was south - somewhere in Sonora, a bandit in the gang of Monte Black.
John Bishop: Monte Black?
Bob Leadly: Once a man joins that gang, he never comes out alive. It's known as the Brotherhood of Death.
Filming Locations
Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA
Sonora, California, USA