Pony Express
United States
1953
101 Min
Color
1.37:1
English
Synopsis
Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish the Pony Express mail service, which is opposed by rival line operator Joe Cooper and siblings Evelyn and Rance Hastings, who hope to profit by fomenting unrest across California. The two Bills combat gunslingers and a tribe of hostile Indians armed by Cooper in order to deliver the mail on time.
Director
Jerry Hopper
Jerry Hopper (July 29, 1907 – December 17, 1988) was an American film and television director, active from the mid-1940s through the early 1970s.
He was an editor at Paramount Pictures before moving to the directors’ chair for several installments of their Musical Parade series (1946–48). Hopper went on to direct feature films, such as, The Atomic City (1952), Secret of the Incas (1954), and The Private War of Major Benson (1955), the later two with actor Charlton Heston. In 1958 he directed Brandon De Wilde and Lee Marvin in The Missouri Traveler.
He then moved primarily into episodic television, helming a notable number of episodes from “Bachelor Father”, “Wagon Train”, “Gunsmoke”, “The Addams Family”, “Burke’s Law”, “Perry Mason”, “The Fugitive”, “Gilligan’s Island”, and “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”, among many, many others. —Wikipedia
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