Raton Pass

""Hold Raton Pass And You Hold The Rest Of The West By The Throat!""

Apr 7 1951 Approved 1h 24m
Western

Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife, each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband, and with the help of a little legal chicanery she tries to obtain Morgan's half of the spread. He balks, so she hires a few gunslingers to press the issue. In a 1951 western, the greedy party usually came to a sorry end; Raton Pass adheres strictly to tradition.

Plot

The ambitious Ann arrives with the stagecoach in Raton Pass to find herself in the midst of a feud between the Challon and the Pozner families. Ann immediately seeks out Marc Challon, a young man from the richest cattle ranch family, who is in love with Lena Casamajor. Seductively Ann works her way into Marc's heart. Marc marries her and Ann is given deed to half the ranch by Marc's father Pierre. When her husband brings home an even richer man (Prentice), who owns a railroad in hopes of getting him to financially back the ranch, Ann convinces Marc to leave the job to her. Instead, Ann seduces Prentice into falling in love with her also and talks him into buying out her husband. He agrees. Suddenly, Ann and Prentice find themselves totally alone as Marc and all the hands have quit the ranch. So Ann sends for the gunslinger Cy Van Cleave, she met in the past. Cy brings in his fellow outlaws and they begin to take over the cattle ranch.

Written by

Thomas W. Blackburn, James R. Webb

Directed by

Edwin L. Marin

Cast

Dennis Morgan, Patricia Neal, Steve Cochran

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Trailers
RATON PASS Original 1951 trailer
Scores
# of Votes
383
Average Rating
6.2 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA