When the Daltons Rode (1940)
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Directors
George Marshall
Cast
Randolph Scott, Kay Francis, Brian Donlevy, George Bancroft
The story
The film opens with the Old-Timer talking to Tod Jackson, setting the background of the story. Tod doesn't want a history lesson, he just wants to know where the Dalton's live. The Dalton brothers, law-abiding farmers, move to Kansas from Missouri to begin a new life.
Genres
Western, Western film
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