In 1901, an undercover US Marshal is sent to Oklahoma Territory to investigate a string of train robberies and arrest the culprits.In 1901, an undercover US Marshal is sent to Oklahoma Territory to investigate a string of train robberies and arrest the culprits.In 1901, an undercover US Marshal is sent to Oklahoma Territory to investigate a string of train robberies and arrest the culprits.
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Harry Morgan
- Cottonwood Goss
- (as Henry Morgan)
Noah Beery
- Hansen
- (as Noah Berry Sr.)
Robert Emmett O'Connor
- Childers
- (as Robert Emmet O'Connor)
Chris Willow Bird
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Lane Bradford
- Barfly
- (uncredited)
Jack Rube Clifford
- Brakeman
- (uncredited)
Victor Cox
- Rider in Street by the Train
- (uncredited)
Wade Crosby
- Brakeman
- (uncredited)
Jim Farley
- Second Conductor
- (uncredited)
Fred Farrell
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Lawrence Hazard
- MacKinlay Kantor
- Gene Fowler(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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- TriviaMGM purchased the film rights to the novel by MacKinlay Kantor in February 1942 and production of the movie began in October 1942 with W.S. Van Dyke as director and Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, Spring Byington, Charley Grapewin, Van Johnson, Morris Ankrum and James Craig. The production was halted and finally shelved after Van Dyke became ill following 4 weeks of shooting, and when it was revived in 1944, only Ankrum and Craig remained in the cast, but in different roles.
- GoofsAt the end of the film when Mary decides to get off the moving train and stay in town with Lloyd, she calls him by his alias first name although she now knows his true identity. You'd think if she decided to start a new life with a guy she'd remember his real name.
- Quotes
Annie Goss: [talking to herself and the dog] *Blasted* hens are more trouble than they're worth. Coyotes at night and chicken hawks in the daytime... and they don't know what they're in business for... be glad when we get back to where hens can lay an egg without making a face about it.
- SoundtracksGentle Annie
(1856) (uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Foster
Played during the opening credits and often as background music
Played on an offscreen piano in the saloon
Sung a cappella by Paul Langton
Featured review
Annie And Her Boys
Marjorie Main brings her Ma Kettle characterization to this film about a southern woman who settles in the west with her two sons after the Civil War. However her two sons in Gentle Annie, in this case Harry Morgan and Paul Langton, are more like the James Brothers than the rustic Kettle clan.
The story line of Gentle Annie is similar to the 20th Century Fox film Jesse James with Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda. In fact since this took place well after the Civil War, the Goss brothers could easily have taken the James boys as role models. Morgan and Langton are outlaws who ostensibly are just trying to earn enough money to get back to the old homestead in Missouri, they never can get quite enough though. Main's wish is enough to justify a criminal career.
James Craig plays the marshal out to get the folks who are doing the robbing. And since they're robbing trains with the US mail that makes it a federal offense and Craig's jurisdiction. Craig's undercover however and sets his sights on Main's kids and works his way into their confidence. He has to because the local law enforcement is as corrupt as it gets under sheriff Barton MacLane. MacLane's a northerner who doesn't like the ex-rebel Goss family on general principles.
Donna Reed plays a stranded woman who the Gosses take in and who Craig falls for. All in all Gentle Annie is a nicely done B western from MGM, a studio that normally didn't put out that kind of product.
The story line of Gentle Annie is similar to the 20th Century Fox film Jesse James with Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda. In fact since this took place well after the Civil War, the Goss brothers could easily have taken the James boys as role models. Morgan and Langton are outlaws who ostensibly are just trying to earn enough money to get back to the old homestead in Missouri, they never can get quite enough though. Main's wish is enough to justify a criminal career.
James Craig plays the marshal out to get the folks who are doing the robbing. And since they're robbing trains with the US mail that makes it a federal offense and Craig's jurisdiction. Craig's undercover however and sets his sights on Main's kids and works his way into their confidence. He has to because the local law enforcement is as corrupt as it gets under sheriff Barton MacLane. MacLane's a northerner who doesn't like the ex-rebel Goss family on general principles.
Donna Reed plays a stranded woman who the Gosses take in and who Craig falls for. All in all Gentle Annie is a nicely done B western from MGM, a studio that normally didn't put out that kind of product.
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- Sep 16, 2009
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- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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