Winds of the Wasteland

Winds of the Wasteland - The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. A race will decide whether they or stageline owner Drake get the government mail contract.

Winds of the Wasteland (1936)
Director: Mack V. Wright
Writers: Joseph F. Poland(screen play)
Stars: John Wayne, Phyllis Fraser, Lew Kelly
Genre: Western
Country: United States
Language: English
Also Known As: Stagecoach Run
Release Date: 6 July 1936 (USA)
Filming Location: Agoura Ranch, Agoura, California, USA

Storyline:
The Pony Express days are coming to an end, with riders John Blair (John Wayne) and his friend Larry Adams (Lane Chandler), both about 75 pounds too heavy for the original job description, out of a job. They pay Cal Drake (Douglas Cosgrove) of Buchanan City a big price for the Crescent City line and equipment, and arrive there to find it is a ghost mining town and has only two residents: eccentric, self-proclaimed Mayor “Rocky” O’Brien (Lew Kelly) and Dr. William Forsythe (Sam Flint). With the arrival from back east of Barbara Forsythe (Phyllis Fraser), the doctor’s daughter and Ginger Rogers lookalike, O’Brien happily changes the blackboard population sign from two to five. John determines to get even and operate the line anyway, after vacating a resident skunk from the stagecoach. On his first run into Buchanan City John learns of a coach race to be staged (fastest team to win a $25,000 government mail contract) and he signs up.
A telegraph crew, drinking unknowingly of a poisoned well, are saved by John’s timely arrival on the scene,and agree to run their line through Crescent City if John can get laborers.He takes them from Buchanan City, leaving it nearly deserted and O’Brien wearing out his chalk changing the population sign upwardly in Crescent City.Drake decides to get rid of John by hiring him, for $1,000, to drive a gold shipment to Sacramento, and ambushing him. John evades the ambush by taking another route and returns to collect his thousand dollars at gunpoint. As the race for the mail contract starts, Drake and his henchmen throw many obstacles in John’s way.

Reviews:
“One of the best of Wayne’s pre-Stagecoach westerns, thanks to a superior screenplay by Joseph Poland, stylish direction by Mack V. Wright, an able group of support players, deft camera-work — and plenty of action.

Wayne plays with a casually charming ease and is smoothly partnered by Lane Chandler, while Phyllis Fraser makes a convincing heroine and Lew Kelly a passable comedian.

The villains are headed by a nicely confident Douglas Cosgrove, with Bob Kortman trailing along as a splendidly sneering henchman and Yakima Canutt in there pitching (and obviously doubling for Kortman in a lively punch-up with Wayne in which our hero does all his own fighting).

The climactic stagecoach race is every bit as thrilling as the script promises with heaps of hard riding (excitingly filmed in running inserts), plus some really spectacular stunt-work.”

• written by “JohnHowardReid” on IMDb.com
  

Also Known As (AKA):
(original title) Winds of the Wasteland
Brazil Tenacidade
Canada (English title) Stagecoach Run
Denmark Den mystiske Prærieby
France (DVD box title) La Ville fantôme
Germany Winde der Wildnis
Germany (DVD box title) Stürme im Wilden Westen
Hungary A nagy postakocsi futam
Italy Una diligenza per l’Ovest
Soviet Union (Russian title) Ветры пустыни
Spain Vientos del páramo
Spain (alternative title) Vientos del yermo
UK Winds of the Wasteland
USA (DVD title) Stagecoach Run
USA Winds of the Wasteland

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