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Fighting Caravans (1931)

„Fighting Caravans“ is a 1931 Black & White pre-Code Western film directed by Otto Brower and David Burton. The screenplay by Agnes Brand Leahy, Edward E. Paramore, Jr. and Keene Thompson is based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Zane Grey.

During the Civil War, in Missouri, while preparing a caravan of freight wagons, with settlers accompanying, journeying from Independence, Missouri to California, during a pre-railroad time, frontier scouts Bill Jackson and Jim Bridger connive the drunken town Marshall to release fellow scout Clint Belmet by coercing Felice, an orphan French girl, to pose as his bride.

That night, as the caravan camps, the pioneers perform a ritual of chivalry on the „newlyweds“ and Clint tries to coerce Felice into consummating the „marriage,“ but she rebuffs him.

Next the caravan comes upon a stagecoach that has recently been ambushed and learns that the U.S. Cavalry has deserted its posts on the plains to join General Grant’s army, leaving travellers unprotected. Despite the constant Indian menace, the settlers reach the Rocky Mountains, where the scouts find a deer killed with an arrow and begin to suspect Lee Murdock, the only survivor of an earlier Indian massacre, of siding with the Indians.

Meanwhile, Felice falls in love with Clint, but her talk of home and marriage sends him into the woods alone, insisting he will always be a scout. There Clint spies Murdock conspiring with the Indians and, when Jim and Bill advise him to settle down because the railroad will make scouts obsolete, he confesses his love for Felice. As the three head back to camp, they hear Indians approaching and run to warn the settlers, who have begun crossing the river.

As women load guns, each family works to defend itself, while Jim and Bill compete to see who can kill the most Indians. When Murdock shoots Jim, Bill kills Murdock before dying himself from an arrow. Clint then ignites the kerosene wagon in the middle of the river and the Indians retreat. The caravan safely arrives in California and Clint and Felice marry.

Cast:

  • Gary Cooper – Clint Belmet
  • Lili Damita – Felice
  • Ernest Torrence – Bill Jackson
  • Tully Marshall – Jim Bridger
  • Fred Kohler – Lee Murdock
  • Eugene Pallette – Seth
  • Roy Stewart – Couch
  • May Boley – Jane
  • Eve Southern – Faith
  • Frank Campeau – Jeff Moffitt
  • Charles Winninger – Marshall
  • Frank Hagney – Renegade
  • Jim Farley – Amos
  • Chris Willow Bird – Apache Indian
  • E. Alyn Warren – Barlow
  • Harry Semels – Brawler
  • Syd Saylor – Charlie
  • White Cloud – Choctaw Indian
  • Donald MacKenzie – Gus
  • Chief White Eagle – Indian
  • Iron Eyes Cody – Indian After Firewater
  • Chief John Big Tree – Indian Chief in Opening Credits
  • Chief White Feather – Iroquois Indian
  • Tiny Sandford – Man at Wagon Train
  • Oscar Apfel – Minor Role
  • Frank Brownlee – Minor Role
  • Jack Carlyle – Minor Role
  • Bill Cooley – Minor Role
  • Rae Daggett – Minor Role
  • Sidney De Gray – Minor Role
  • Clifford Dempsey – Minor Role
  • Walter Downing – Minor Role
  • James Durkin – Minor Role
  • Peggy Elinor – Minor Role
  • Dolores Johnson – Minor Role
  • Harry Lamont – Minor Role
  • Harry Lee – Minor Role
  • Guy Oliver – Minor Role
  • Scott Seaton – Minor Role
  • Ernest Shields – Minor Role
  • Bruce Warren – Minor Role
  • High Eagle – Mission Indian
  • Irving Bacon – Mustachioed Barfly
  • Blue Cloud – Navajo Indian
  • Jane Darwell – Pioneer Woman
  • Pauline French – Pioneer Woman
  • Rosa Gore – Pioneer Woman
  • Helen Hunt – Pioneer Woman
  • Jane Keckley – Pioneer Woman
  • James A. Marcus – The Blacksmith
  • Merrill McCormick – Townsman

„Fighting Caravans“ ist ein Pre-Code-Western in Schwarz-Weiß aus dem Jahr 1931 unter der Regie von Otto Brower und David Burton. Das Drehbuch von Agnes Brand Leahy, Edward E. Paramore, Jr. und Keene Thompson basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Roman von Zane Grey aus dem Jahr 1929.

Während des Bürgerkriegs bereiten die Scouts Bill Jackson und Jim Bridger in Missouri eine Karawane von Güterwagen mit Siedlern vor, die von Independence, Missouri, nach Kalifornien reisen soll. Sie überreden den betrunkenen Marshall der Stadt, den anderen Scout Clint Belmet freizulassen, indem sie Felice, ein französisches Waisenkind, dazu zwingen, sich als seine Braut auszugeben.

In der Nacht, als die Karawane ihr Lager aufschlägt, führen die Pioniere ein ritterliches Ritual an den „Frischvermählten“ durch, und Clint versucht, Felice zu zwingen, die „Ehe“ zu vollziehen, aber sie weist ihn zurück.