El Paso
El Paso
Release: 1949-03-22
·Runtime: 103m
·★ 5.7
Western
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once there he finds the judge has become a drunk and a laughing stock, doing the bidding of local magnate Bert Donner and his running dog, Sheriff La Farge. Just as Clay starts straightening out the town's problems, events occur which force him to abandon the legal system and instead adopt the murderous tactics of a vigilante.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Cast
Nacho Galindo
Lee 'Lasses' White
John Payne
as Clay Fletcher
Catherine Craig
as Mrs. Elkins
Denver Pyle
as Vigilante (uncredited)
Peggy McIntyre
Lorin Raker
Sterling Hayden
as Bert Donner
Mary Beth Hughes
as Stagecoach Nellie
H.B. Warner
as Judge Fletcher
Irving Bacon
as Stage Passenger (uncredited)
John Hart
Gloria Winters
Steven Geray
as Mexican Joe
Herbert Heywood
Dick Foran
as Sheriff La Farge
Eduardo Noriega
as Don Nacho Vázquez
Robert Ellis
as Jack Elkins
Argentina Brunetti
as Don Nacho's Woman (uncredited)
Jack Perrin
as Barfly (uncredited)
Chief Yowlachie
Reed Howes
Pierre Watkin
Henry Hull
as Henry Jeffers
Arthur Space
as John Elkins
Dan White
as Henchman (uncredited)
George 'Gabby' Hayes
as Pesky Tees
Gail Russell
as Susan Jeffers
