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South of St. Louis is a american film of genre Western directed by Ray Enright released in USA on 6 march 1949 with Joel McCrea

South of St. Louis (1949)

South of St. Louis
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Released in USA 6 march 1949
Length 1h28
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Western
Rating59% 2.9976052.9976052.9976052.9976052.997605

South of St Louis is a 1949 Western film directed by Ray Enright. Starring Joel McCrea, the film chronicles the friendship between three ranchers after their ranch is destroyed by raiders led by the infamous Luke Cotrell. The movie was originally titled Distant Drums, but was later changed to its current title, a term that refers to Civil War army deserters.

Synopsis

During the Civil War, Kip Davis (Joel McCrea), Charlie Burns (Zachary Scott), and Lee Price (Douglas Kennedy), are run out of town by the guerilla raider and Union Army leader Luke Cottrell, who burns down their ranch. Though Kip's fiancee, Deb (Dorothy Malone) begs them to stay in the small Texas town of Edenton, the three ranch owners vow vengeance on the Cottrell and decide to head south to find him. When they get to Brownsville, Texas, Lee decides to join the Confederate Army, while Kip and Charlie attempt to rebuild Three Bell ranch. Before they do, however, they take on offer from an attractive local lounge singer, Rouge de Lisle (Alexis Smith), to transport a box of furniture for fifty dollars. It turns out, however, that the box is instead filled with an illegal shipment of firearms and Kip is subsequently arrested. Before he is punished, however, he is freed and is picked up by Rouge, who offers him a job gun-running for the Confederacy. He accepts the offer, hoping to get enough money smuggling to rebuild the ranch. The trio then hires a group of gunmen, one of which is Slim Hansen, who used to work for Cottrell, and heads to Matamoros, Mexico to pick up a shipment of guns for the Confederacy.

Actors

Joel McCrea

(Kip Davis)Zachary Scott

(Charlie Burns)Douglas Kennedy

(Lee Price)Art Smith

(Bronco)Victor Jory

(Luke Cottrell)
And :
Alexis Smith
Dorothy Malone
Alan Hale
Holmes Herbert
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