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  • Iron Mountain Trail (1953)
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    54 min | Drama, Western
Iron Mountain Trail (1953)
Passed
54 min | Drama, Western

Rex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveries of mail to the goldfields, and find a destructive feud raging between two stage-line owners, Sam Sawyer and John Brockway. In their ...See moreRex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveries of mail to the goldfields, and find a destructive feud raging between two stage-line owners, Sam Sawyer and John Brockway. In their attempts to have their stages and drivers first on the dock to get the mail brought East by ship, the two have damaged each other's equipment and schedules to the point that no consignment of mail reaches the goldfields intact or on time. The on-purpose carelessness of the crewmen of the McCall Shipping Line adds to the problem. Rex's proposal that Brockway institute an overland mail service along the Iron Mountian Trail to compete with the McCall ship, meets with vicious opposition from Roger McCall, who also knows that his attempts to sabotage the Brockway plan will be blamed on Sawyer and he engineers a stampede of the horse herd Brockway buys for his new service. Brockway catches McCall's henchmen setting fire to his barn and is murdered. McCall demands the arrest of Sawyer for the killing and the townspeople go along, but Rex suspects McCall is just trying to eliminate his only other possible competitor. Rex suspects First Mate Orrin of McCall's ship of having fired the bullet that killed Brockway, and uncovers enough evidence against him to persuade the U. S. Marshal in San Francisco to postpone action in Sawyer's case until Orrin can be apprehended in San Diego and brought back to San Francisco. With the help of Sawyer's daughter, Nancy, Rex races overland as the ship is sailing from San Francisco to San Diego, apprehends Orrin and then returns overland with his prisoner. His experiences against time proves that a man on horseback can carry mail faster than the sailing ships or stagelines, and he organizes the world-famous Pony Express and rides the first historic lap of it on his wonder horse, Koko. Written by Les Adams See less
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Director
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Gerald Geraghty (screenplay) | William Lively (story)
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Updated May 8, 1953

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May 8, 1953 (United States)
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16 cast members
Name Known for
Rex Allen
Rex Allen Rex Allen   See fewer
Koko
Koko - Rex's Horse (as The Miracle Horse of the Movies) Koko - Rex's Horse (as The Miracle Horse of the Movies)   See fewer
Slim Pickens
Slim Pickens Slim Pickens   See fewer
Grant Withers
Roger McCall Roger McCall   See fewer
Nan Leslie
Nancy Sawyer Nancy Sawyer   See fewer
Roy Barcroft
Mate Orrin Mate Orrin   See fewer
Forrest Taylor
Sam Sawyer Sam Sawyer   See fewer
Al Bridge
The Marshal (as Alan Bridge) The Marshal (as Alan Bridge)   See fewer
John Hamilton
Circuit Judge Circuit Judge   See fewer
George Lloyd
John Brockway (as George H. Lloyd) John Brockway (as George H. Lloyd)   See fewer
Dee Cooper
Henchman Murray (uncredited) Henchman Murray (uncredited)   See fewer
Cactus Mack
2nd Horse Trader (uncredited) 2nd Horse Trader (uncredited)   See fewer
Alex Montoya
1st Horse Trader (uncredited) 1st Horse Trader (uncredited)   See fewer
Frank O'Connor
Postal Agent (uncredited) Postal Agent (uncredited)   See fewer
Post Park
Henchman / Stage Driver (uncredited) Henchman / Stage Driver (uncredited)   See fewer
Ken Terrell
Bartender Tim (uncredited) Bartender Tim (uncredited)   See fewer
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