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The Big Bonanza

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Original title

The Big Bonanza

Year

1944

Running time

70 min.

Country

United States

Director

George Archainbaud

Screenwriter

Dorrell McGowan, Stuart McGowan, Paul Gangelin. Original story: Leonard Praskins, Robert Presnell Sr

Cast

Music

R. Dale Butts, Mort Glickman

Cinematography

Reggie Lanning (B&W)

Producer

Republic Pictures. Distributor: Republic Pictures

Genre

Action. Adventure. Drama. Western

Synopsis

Captain Jed Kelton (Richard Arlen), Union Army officer, unfairly tried for cowardice in battle during the Civil War, escapes from custody while being transported to Fort Leavenport in Kansas. After a brief visit home, Jed and his grizzled old friend, Hap Shelby (George "Gabby" Hayes), go to Nevada Springs, Nevada, where Spud (Bobby Driscoll), the eight-year-old brother who idolizes Jed, is living with Sam Ballou (Robert Livingston), Jed's best friend in their early boyhood days, Jed finds that Sam is now owner of the Silver Queen saloon and dance hall. Sam is greedy for wealth and power, and not particular how he gets it, even at the expense of others. Chiquata McSweeney (Jane Frazee), beautiful singing star at the Silver Queen, and sweetheart of Sam, is sincerely fond of young Spud, but Jed thinks that a saloon is the wrong place to keep a child and he arranges for Spud to live at the home of Judy Parker (Lynne Roberts), the well-bred Sunday School teacher whose father, Adam Parker.

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The Big Bonanza

1944

George Archainbaud