Santa Fe

After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.

Cast

Randolph Scott

as Britt Canfield

Janis Carter

as Judith Chandler

Jerome Courtland

as Terry Canfield

Peter M. Thompson

as Tom Canfield

John Archer

as Clint Canfield

Warner Anderson

as Dave Baxter

Roy Roberts

as Cole Sanders

Billy House

as Luke Plummer

Olin Howland

as Dan Dugan

Allene Roberts

as Ella Sue Canfield

Reviews

John Chard

Captain Canfield is a good man in a fight, I ought to know. Santa Fe is directed by Irving Pichel and adapted to screenplay by Kenneth Gamet from the James Marshall novel and a story by Louis Stevens. It stars Randolph Scott, Janis Carter, Peter M. Thompson, Jerome Courtland and John Archer. A ...

CinemaSerf

With the American Civil War finally lost, the four “Canfield” brothers go their own way. One, “Britt” (Randolph Scott) is a railway engineer and he ends up working on the route down to Santa Fe in New Mexico for it’s chief engineer “Baxter” (Warner Anderson). Meantime, his siblings continue to nurse...

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