When the Daltons Rode
WANTED DEAD or ALIVE SCREAMED THE NATION WHEN the DALTONS ROAD
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8/23/1940Runtime
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Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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A frontier lawyer finds his loyalty tested when good people are falsely pushed into outlawry by corruption, and his growing attraction to the wrong woman complicates everything. It's a Western that treats its heroes as victims of circumstance rather than villains, balancing romance and moral conflict against the backdrop of pioneering Kansas.
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