The Big Bonanza
1944 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Synopsis of The Big Bonanza
Captain Jed Kelton (Richard Arlen), Union Army officer, unfairly tried for cowardice in battle during the Civil War, escapes from custody while being transported to Fort Leavenport in Kansas. After a brief visit home, Jed and his grizzled old friend, Hap Shelby (George "Gabby" Hayes), go to Nevada Springs, Nevada, where Spud (Bobby Driscoll), the eight-year-old brother who idolizes Jed, is living with Sam Ballou (Robert Livingston), Jed's best friend in their early boyhood days, Jed finds that Sam is now owner of the Silver Queen saloon and dance hall. Sam is greedy for wealth and power, and not particular how he gets it, even at the expense of others. Chiquata McSweeney (Jane Frazee), beautiful singing star at the Silver Queen, and sweetheart of Sam, is sincerely fond of young Spud, but Jed thinks that a saloon is the wrong place to keep a child and he arranges for Spud to live at the home of Judy Parker (Lynne Roberts), the well-bred Sunday School teacher whose father, Adam Parker.
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Richard Arlen · Robert Livingston · Jane Frazee · George 'Gabby' Hayes · Lynne Roberts · Bobby Driscoll · J.M. Kerrigan · Russell Simpson · Frank Reicher · Cordell Hickman · Hayward Soo Hoo · Roy Barcroft · Fred Kohler Jr. · Monte Hale
Soundtrack R. Dale Butts · Mort Glickman
Screenplay Dorrell McGowan · Stuart McGowan · Paul Gangelin · Leonard Praskins · Robert Presnell Sr
Cinematography Reggie Lanning
Original title The Big Bonanza
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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