Black Midnight (1949)
Drama • Western • 1ч 6м
A young man with a love of horses, Scott Jordan (Roddy McDowall) lives on the family ranch with his uncle Bill (Damian O’Flynn). When he buys a wild stallion from his black-sheep cousin Daniel (Rand Brooks), Scott names the horse Midnight and does his best to tame him. But when the sheriff (Sky King’s Kirby Grant) suspects the stallion was stolen and Daniel’s plan to get rid of the horse ends with a man being trampled, Scott must prove Midnight acted in self-defense before his uncle destroys him. The fourth of six films McDowall coproduced and starred in for Monogram Pictures, Black Midnight was directed by Oscar “Budd” Boetticher, whose seven Westerns with Randolph Scott are considered classics of the genre.
TMDB rating:
6.5
(4)
Cast
Roddy McDowall
Scott Jordan
Damian O'Flynn
Bill Jordan
Lyn Thomas
Cindy Baxter
Kirby Grant
Sheriff Gilbert
Gordon Jones
Roy
Fay Baker
Martha Baxter
Rand Brooks
Daniel Jordan
Crew
Budd Boetticher
Director
Wesley Barry
Assistant Director
Lindsley Parsons
Producer
Ace Herman
Associate Producer
Roddy McDowall
Associate Producer
Talmadge Morrison
Still Photographer
William A. Sickner
Director of Photography
John J. Martin
Camera Operator
Dave Milton
Art Direction
Ace Herman
Editor
Edward J. Kay
Music Director
John R. Carter
Sound
Ted Larsen
Makeup Artist
Bobbie Sierks
Script Supervisor
Clint Johnston
Screenplay
Erna Lazarus
Screenplay
Clint Johnston
Story
John R. Carter
Sound Recordist
Lloyd Garnell
Gaffer
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