The Missouri Traveler
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DVD Cover for The Missouri Traveler
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| Directed by | Jerry Hopper |
| Produced by |
C. V. Whitney Patrick Ford |
| Written by |
John Burress Norman S. Hall |
| Starring |
Brandon deWilde Lee Marvin Gary Merrill Paul Ford |
| Music by | Jack Marshall |
| Cinematography | Winton C. Hoch |
| Edited by | Tom McAdoo |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Corporation |
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103 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Missouri Traveler is a 1958 American coming-of-age period piece comedy-drama film directed by Jerry Hopper starring Brandon deWilde and Lee Marvin. It is based on the novel of the same name by John Burress. The cinematography was by Technicolor developer Winton C. Hoch with harmonica and banjo score by Jack Marshall of The Munsters fame. The film was distributed by Disney's Buena Vista Corporation.
It is the second of only 3 films produced by Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's C. V. Whitney Pictures; the first being The Searchers in 1956 with John Wayne and directed by John Ford, the last being The Young Land in 1959 with Patrick Wayne and Dennis Hopper.
Whitney married Mary Hosford, whom he gave a prominent part in this film, the same year it was released. The following year, in 1959, deWilde's career would graduate to more adult themes in Blue Denim.
Brandon deWilde leads a cast lengthy in character actors playing subdued Biarn Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum bound for Florida in the post-World War I time period of 1926. He receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobias Brown (Lee Marvin). There, after an episode in the town square involving most of the populace, he meets crusty newspaper man Doyle Magee (Gary Merrill).
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