Dodge City

Lee Irving fires his six-shooter revolver eight times without reload it.

Near the beginning of the film there is a race between a stage coach and a train.

A high radio tower is visible on a hill behind the train.

During the scene where the angry townspeople gather en masse outside the jail after Yancey is arrested, just above the rooflines of the buildings is seen a group of tall palm trees - certainly not native to Dodge City, Kansas, but relatively plentiful outside the studio sound lot in California.

The Matt Cole's tombstone reads "Died June 6, 1875".

Afterward, the sheriff's notices, published by Dodge City Star, read "July 1, 1872".

Matt Cole's head stone reads died June 6 1875 yet all the other posted Sheriff's decrees reference July 1872.

Wade Hatton is seen putting on his gun-belt and sheriff's badge in the sheriff's office, two scenes before he and a group of men are seen removing the board across the door to the office.

The movie opens with an Atcheson Topeka and Santa Fe train making its first run to Dodge City in 1866.

However, Dodge City wasn't founded until 1871, and the ATSF line to Dodge City wasn't completed until 1872.

When little Harry Cole pulls his wooden toy gun on Hatton and Co as they enter town, you can plainly see a rubber band attached to it.

Rubber bands didn't exist in the 19th century.

The fast passenger steam locomotives of the era had only 2 large driving wheels each side.

The slow freight locomotive in the film has 4 driving wheels each side.

The director has had 2 of these 4 wheels painted white to simulate a passenger locomotive.

The locomotive in the film is a more modern locomotive and so it is able to speed along even though it is a freight locomotive.

It's Kansas 1866. The post war years has the country expanding westward.

Mmmmmm, a western starring Errol Flynn? Okay, I will bite.

I typically avoid using first person in reviews, but for this film, I'll make an exception. Dodge City is a phenomenal film that I've watched at least twelve times since discovering it around 2014.

"Dodge City" is a real good early 'A' western, at a time when they were usually second feature programmers. In the same year came "Stagecoach", but this one was in color, at a time when color features were just coming to prominence.

I just in the few days learn in that movie Curtiz did a stunt with horses where they got injured and ~20 or so had to be killed, this is inexcusable and exempts that movie, I learn a week or 2 ago about this but do not know what Flynn movie it is and only few days learn it is that movie by the director who did numerous movies with Flynn (and Bogart.) This also severely shades his filmography including movies like this or Robin Hood.

Not to be outdone by other studios making A-list westerns in 1939, Warner Bros gave it the complete Errol Flynn/Olivia de Havilland treatment in Technicolor. It was another box office success, the biggest hit of the year for the studio.

1939 was the year of "Gone with the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz". Less remembered is that it was also the year of 'the big four', as I dub 4 classic westerns.

Directed by Michael Curtiz. Starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Bruce Cabot, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Henry Travers, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Victor Jory, John Litel, William Lundigan, Ann Sheridan, Henry O'Neill.

What was it about 1939? "Dark Victory", "Gone with the Wind", "Goodbye, Mr.