An undercover government agent battles insurrectionists whose want Southern California to secede and become a slave state.An undercover government agent battles insurrectionists whose want Southern California to secede and become a slave state.An undercover government agent battles insurrectionists whose want Southern California to secede and become a slave state.
Katherine Warren
- Phoebe Sheldon
- (as Katharine Warren)
Anthony Caruso
- Vic Sutro
- (as Tony Caruso)
Nestor Amaral
- Musician
- (uncredited)
Emile Avery
- Henchman
- (uncredited)
Trevor Bardette
- Sheldon's Henchman at Hideout
- (uncredited)
Gregg Barton
- Henchman Luke
- (uncredited)
George Bell
- Trooper
- (uncredited)
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- Writers
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- TriviaThe scene where Randolph Scott (Callicut) is chasing Roy Roberts (Sheldon) and jumps onto Sheldon's horse, and the white horse carrying the two men runs off the end of a damaged bridge and falls head first into a river, was actually a scene from the WB film San Antonio (1945).
- GoofsThe film is set in 1850s. Most, if not all, of the firearms employed in the film post-date the American Civil War (1861-1865). Examples include Colt Single-Action Army revolvers and various lever-action rifles that first appear in the 1870s.
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Major Ransome Callicut: [as voiceover narrator] Los Angeles - thirty difficult miles from San Pedro. Here in the tropical sun it was hard to believe that the City of Angels had its share of unholy activities.
- ConnectionsFeatures San Antonio (1945)
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A Serious Mission
The Man Behind The Gun is a Randolph Scott western with Randy on a most serious mission. He's going undercover in southern California just before the Civil War to prevent a secessionist plot from taking California out of the union or at a very least splitting off southern California as a separate state for the southern Confederacy to be.
Scott's only got two allies from his previous army service Alan Hale,Jr., and Dick Wesson whom he can rely on. The situation is such that he can't tell who's on what side, least of all the army commander in the Los Angeles area, Philip Carey.
The film boasts a top notch cast of players that include Roy Roberts, Douglas Fowley, Anthony Caruso, Katharine Warren, Morris Ankrum, and as a young Joaquin Murietta, Robert Cabal. The two female leads are Patrice Wymore better known as the third Mrs. Errol Flynn and band singer Lina Romay who formally was with both the Xavier Cugar Orchestra and the Bing Crosby radio show at different times. Romay gets to sing a couple of sultry songs in Spanish. Also since this was a Warner Brothers film, Some Sunday Morning which was introduced in the Errol Flynn film San Antonio gets interpolated here.
Telling you who the head of the secessionist group would spoil things, but I will say it's one very deadly individual.
The Man Behind The Gun is a very good Randolph Scott western which would please his still devoted legion of fans.
Scott's only got two allies from his previous army service Alan Hale,Jr., and Dick Wesson whom he can rely on. The situation is such that he can't tell who's on what side, least of all the army commander in the Los Angeles area, Philip Carey.
The film boasts a top notch cast of players that include Roy Roberts, Douglas Fowley, Anthony Caruso, Katharine Warren, Morris Ankrum, and as a young Joaquin Murietta, Robert Cabal. The two female leads are Patrice Wymore better known as the third Mrs. Errol Flynn and band singer Lina Romay who formally was with both the Xavier Cugar Orchestra and the Bing Crosby radio show at different times. Romay gets to sing a couple of sultry songs in Spanish. Also since this was a Warner Brothers film, Some Sunday Morning which was introduced in the Errol Flynn film San Antonio gets interpolated here.
Telling you who the head of the secessionist group would spoil things, but I will say it's one very deadly individual.
The Man Behind The Gun is a very good Randolph Scott western which would please his still devoted legion of fans.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $2,000,000
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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