Dawn on the Great Divide

Dawn on the Great Divide is a 1942 American Western film directed by Howard Bretherton based on James Oliver Curwood's 1913 short story "Wheels of Fate". It was the final film of Buck Jones and the final film of Monogram Pictures Rough Riders film series. Colonel Tim McCoy was recalled up for military service in World War II and is not present in the film.

Plot

The Rough Riders protect a wagon train and supplies for the railroad against a power hungry businessman who dresses his army of henchmen as Indians.

Cast

Buck Jones as Buck Roberts

Mona Barrie as Sadie Rand

Raymond Hatton as Sandy Hopkins

Robert Lowery as Terry Wallace

Rex Bell as Jack Carson

Maude Eburne as Sarah Harkins

Christine McIntyre as Mary Harkins, Sarah's Daughter

Betty Blythe as Mrs. Elmira Corkle

Robert Frazer as Judge John Corkle

Harry Woods as Jim Corkle the Judge's Brother

Tristram Coffin as Matt Rand

Lee Shumway as Joe Wallace, Rail Road Official

Roy Barcroft as Chuck Loder

Steve Clark as Alex Kirby, Carson's Messinger

Warren Jackson as Fred Cooke, Bartender

Silver as Buck's horse

Soundtrack

Mona Barrie - Rock of Ages

Christine McIntyre and Robert Lowery - Beautiful Dreamer

External links

1942 films

Monogram Pictures films

American black-and-white films

Films based on short fiction

1942 Western (genre) films

American Western (genre) films

Films based on works by James Oliver Curwood

Films directed by Howard Bretherton

1940s English-language films

1940s American films