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Iron Mountain Trail (1953)
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54 min | Drama, Western

Iron Mountain Trail (1953)

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54 min | Drama, Western

Rex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveries of mail to the goldfields, and find a destructive feud raging between two stage-line owners, Sam Sawyer and John Brockway. In their ...See moreRex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveries of mail to the goldfields, and find a destructive feud raging between two stage-line owners, Sam Sawyer and John Brockway. In their attempts to have their stages and drivers first on the dock to get the mail brought East by ship, the two have damaged each other's equipment and schedules to the point that no consignment of mail reaches the goldfields intact or on time. The on-purpose carelessness of the crewmen of the McCall Shipping Line adds to the problem. Rex's proposal that Brockway institute an overland mail service along the Iron Mountian Trail to compete with the McCall ship, meets with vicious opposition from Roger McCall, who also knows that his attempts to sabotage the Brockway plan will be blamed on Sawyer and he engineers a stampede of the horse herd Brockway buys for his new service. Brockway catches McCall's henchmen setting fire to his barn and is murdered. McCall demands the arrest of Sawyer for the killing and the townspeople go along, but Rex suspects McCall is just trying to eliminate his only other possible competitor. Rex suspects First Mate Orrin of McCall's ship of having fired the bullet that killed Brockway, and uncovers enough evidence against him to persuade the U. S. Marshal in San Francisco to postpone action in Sawyer's case until Orrin can be apprehended in San Diego and brought back to San Francisco. With the help of Sawyer's daughter, Nancy, Rex races overland as the ship is sailing from San Francisco to San Diego, apprehends Orrin and then returns overland with his prisoner. His experiences against time proves that a man on horseback can carry mail faster than the sailing ships or stagelines, and he organizes the world-famous Pony Express and rides the first historic lap of it on his wonder horse, Koko. Written by Les Adams See less

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16 cast members

Name	Known for
Rex Allen Rex Allen Rex Allen See fewer	Tomorrowland (2015)
Koko Koko - Rex's Horse (as The Miracle Horse of the Movies) Koko - Rex's Horse (as The Miracle Horse of the Movies) See fewer	Rodeo King and the Senorita (1951)
Slim Pickens Slim Pickens Slim Pickens See fewer	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Grant Withers Roger McCall Roger McCall See fewer	My Darling Clementine (1946)
Nan Leslie Nancy Sawyer Nancy Sawyer See fewer	Kings Row (1955)
Roy Barcroft Mate Orrin Mate Orrin See fewer	The Purple Monster Strikes (1945)
Forrest Taylor Sam Sawyer Sam Sawyer See fewer	Shadow of Chinatown (I) (1936)
Al Bridge The Marshal (as Alan Bridge) The Marshal (as Alan Bridge) See fewer	Sullivan's Travels (1941)
John Hamilton Circuit Judge Circuit Judge See fewer	The Maltese Falcon (1941)
George Lloyd John Brockway (as George H. Lloyd) John Brockway (as George H. Lloyd) See fewer	Idol of the Crowds (1937)
Dee Cooper Henchman Murray (uncredited) Henchman Murray (uncredited) See fewer	The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (1976)
Cactus Mack 2nd Horse Trader (uncredited) 2nd Horse Trader (uncredited) See fewer	Stormy (1935)
Alex Montoya 1st Horse Trader (uncredited) 1st Horse Trader (uncredited) See fewer	The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Frank O'Connor Postal Agent (uncredited) Postal Agent (uncredited) See fewer	The Mystic Circle Murder (1938)
Post Park Henchman / Stage Driver (uncredited) Henchman / Stage Driver (uncredited) See fewer	The El Paso Kid (1946)
Ken Terrell Bartender Tim (uncredited) Bartender Tim (uncredited) See fewer	Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)