Frontier Pony Express
Frontier Pony Express is a 1939 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts (as Mary Hart) and Noble Johnson as the lead villain.
Plot
At the start of the American Civil War in 1861 the Pony Express is of vital importance to the United States. A Confederate secret agent, Brett Langhorne, is working undercover by purchasing the newspaper in the town of St. Joe. Accompanied by his sister they meet Roy Rogers, a Pony Express rider, who rescues her from a runaway stagecoach. Brett unsuccessfully tries to get Roy to work for money to help the Confederacy.
More details
| author | Norman S. Hall |
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| director | Joseph Kane |
| editor | Gene Milford |
| genre | western |
| keywords | american civil war civil war fall out pony express secret agent work out young man |
| musicBy | Cy Feuer |
| producer | Joseph Kane |
| publisher | Republic Pictures |
| theme | war |