Saddle Tramp | |
Director: | Hugo Fregonese |
Producer: | Leonard Goldstein |
Cinematography: | Charles P. Boyle |
Editing: | Frank Gross |
Color Process: | Technicolor |
Studio: | Universal Pictures |
Distributor: | Universal Pictures |
Runtime: | 76 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Saddle Tramp is a 1950 American Western film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring Joel McCrea and Wanda Hendrix.[1] Its uncredited theme song was "The Cry of the Wild Goose" by Frankie Laine.
While travelling through Nevada enroute to California, "saddle tramp" Chuck Conner stays overnight with an old close friend. After the friend is killed falling from his horse, "Uncle Chuck" feels a duty to look after his four young boys, whose mother had died previously. He takes a job on a local ranch, but must conceal his new family from his employer. He also takes in a young woman who has run away from home, and she assists him to tackle a gang of cattle rustlers.