Born to the West

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Category: Romance
All Genres: Romance, Western
Release Year: 1937
Country: USA
Runtime: 59
Rating: 5 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Charles Barton
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

CRIMSON-STREAKED ROMANCE HITS THE TRAIL! (original print ad - all caps)

It took six murdering rustlers and a girl to make a reckless rover settle down to love!

Writing by: Stuart Anthony - (screenplay) and
Robert Yost - (screenplay)
Zane Grey - novel (uncredited)
Jack Natteford - additional dialogue (uncredited)

Produced by: William T. Lackey - producer
William LeBaron - executive producer

Cast: John Wayne - Dare Rudd
Marsha Hunt - Judy Rustoe
Johnny Mack Brown - Tom Fillmore (as John Mack Brown)
John Patterson - Lyn Hardy
Monte Blue - Bart Hammond
Syd Saylor - Dink Hooley
Lucien Littlefield - John, cattle buyer
Nick Lukats - Jim Fallon - Henchman-rustler
James Craig - Brady - card sharp
Johnny Boyle - Sam
Jack Kennedy - Sheriff

Music: Jonathan Goldsmith
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Plot Outline: Can Wayne prove he is responsible as to win the heart of Judy and outwit the saloon owner?
Plot: Dare Rudd takes a shine to his cattleman cousin Toms girlfriend who asks Tom to hire Dare to head the big cattle drive. Dare loses the money for the drive to cardsharps, but Tom wins it back, but Dare must save Toms life.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The final credits are those from Faces of Death (1978) shown entirely, with no new technical credits whatsoever.

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: As Tom tells Lyn that Dare is the new manager, the portrait of George Washington on the wall behind, appears and disappears between shots.

Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:
Due to a studio clerical error, Alan Ladd was credited for an appearance in this film. He does not, in fact, appear in it.
On its first reissue, the company added random stock footage of cattle drives, chases, and stampedes to bring the running time to over an hour.
The player-piano version of "Youre the One I Crave" heard during the poker game, is the same recording heard in the speakeasy scene of the Marx Brothers Horse Feathers (1932), which also features Syd Saylor.