Saddle Legion
| Saddle Legion | |
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| Directed by | Lesley Selander |
| Produced by | Herman Schlom |
| Starring |
Tim Holt Dorothy Malone |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Saddle Legion is a 1951 Western film directed by Lesley Selander and starring Tim Holt. It co-stars Dorothy Malone, who was one of Holt's most prestigious co-stars. She was borrowed from Warner Bros.
According to film scholar Tom Stempel, Malone was "the most interesting actress" to appear in a Tim Holt Western:
The other women in the B westerns tended to be cute rather than sexy, but Malone’s look and voice were sex personified. So when Chito flirts with her Ann, Malone is way beyond that kind of B western cuteness... Malone’s sexual presence upsets the usual dynamics of the B westerns, and the filmmakers may have realized that Malone’s Ann would have eaten Martin’s Chito alive... [In the final scene] As he and Tim leave to take the cattle to market, Chito says to Ann, “You make sure you wait until I come back.” Since the end of the Holt westerns usually involved Chito running or riding away from girl who wants to marry him, the ending of Saddle Legion is a little more adult.
When a town drunk, Gabe, causes a cattle stampede, then shoots the rancher who fires him, cowboys Dave and Chito bring him to a new doctor in town, Dr. Ann Rollins, and then to justice after Gabe conspires with wealthy Ace Kelso and other rustlers.
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