Wagon Train

Story

Synopsis

In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down his murderer. A certain Matt Gardner wants to corner the freight business to Pecos and persuades young Zack Sibley's wagon master to switch sides. Zack also earns the enmity of Gardner's son Coe, who takes umbrage to the youngster's flirtation with pretty Helen Lee. It all comes to a head during a food shortage in Pecos, a near-disaster that persuades the wagon master to switch sides once again. When the dust settles, Zack learns that old man Gardner is actually Carl Anderson, the man who murdered his father.

Director

Edward Killy

Writers

Bernard McConville, Morton Grant

Language

English

Release date

4 October 1940

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Tim Holt

  Zack Sibley

• 

  Martha O'Driscoll

  Helen Lee

• 

  Ray Whitley

  Ned

• 

  Emmett Lynn

  Whopper

• 

  Glenn Strange

  Stagecoach driver

• 

  Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart

  Coe Gardner

• 

  Cliff Clark

  Matt Gardner

• Ellen Lowe

  Amanthy

• 

  Wade Crosby

  O'Follard

• 

  Ethan Laidlaw

  Henchman Pat Hays

• 

  Monte Montague

  Henchman Kurt

• 

  Carl Stockdale

  Luke Wilkes