Stallion Road

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1947 film by Raoul Walsh, James V. Kern

title: "Stallion Road" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1947-romantic-drama-films", "1947-films", "american-black-and-white-films", "warner-bros.-films", "american-romantic-drama-films", "american-western-(genre)-films", "1947-western-(genre)-films", "films-directed-by-james-v.-kern", "films-scored-by-friedrich-hollaender", "1940s-english-language-films", "1947-american-films", "english-language-western-(genre)-films", "english-language-romantic-drama-films"] description: "1947 film by Raoul Walsh, James V. Kern" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stallion_Road" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Stallion Road
image	Stallion Road FilmPoster.jpeg
director	James V. Kern
Raoul Walsh (uncredited)
producer	Alex Gottlieb
writer	Stephen Longstreet
starring	Ronald Reagan
Alexis Smith
Zachary Scott
Peggy Knudsen
Patti Brady
Harry Davenport
music	Frederick Hollander
cinematography	Arthur Edeson
editing	David Weisbart
studio	Warner Bros.
distributor	Warner Bros.
released
runtime	97 minutes
country	United States
language	English
gross	$2,350,000 (US rentals)
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Stallion Road is a 1947 American neo-Western drama film directed by James V. Kern, written by Stephen Longstreet, and starring Ronald Reagan, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Peggy Knudsen, Patti Brady and Harry Davenport. It was released by Warner Bros. on April 12, 1947.

Plot

Based on the novel and screenplay by Stephen Longstreet, this film depicts the romance which flowers between a breezy young veterinarian (Ronald Reagan), and a lady who runs a breeding farm (Alexis Smith). The two horse-loving characters appear to be bound for an inevitable love story. And a friend of the vet (Zachary Scott), who also fancies the lady, quite obviously hasn't a chance. But then, in a moment of crisis, when the favorite mare of the lady is at death's door, the vet doesn't respond to her summons. He is off vaccinating a herd of cows which is suddenly and alarmingly threatened with the dreaded anthrax disease. And that, it seems, is an incident which the lady takes very personally: she gives the vet the cold shoulder and throws herself into the arms of his pal. Eventually, things come around when the vet contracts anthrax himself (after pulling the lady's herd of horses out of danger with a new serum he has found) and she realizes that she still loves him and that she has to save him at all costs. So, she gives him the anthrax serum, and luckily, he pulls through.

Cast

Ronald Reagan as Larry Hanrahan
Alexis Smith as Rory Teller
Zachary Scott as Stephen Purcell
Peggy Knudsen as Daisy Otis
Patti Brady as Chris Teller
Harry Davenport as Dr. Stevens
Angela Greene as Lana Rock
Frank Puglia as Pelon
Ralph Byrd as Richmond Mallard
Lloyd Corrigan as Ben Otis
Fernando Alvarado as Chico
Matthew Boulton as Joe Beasley
Creighton Hale as Party Guest (uncredited)
Jack Mower as Jack (uncredited)

Production

The story was originally bought as a vehicle for Alan Ladd.

References

[https://archive.org/stream/variety169-1948-01#page/n62/mode/1up "Top Grossers of 1947", ''Variety'', 7 January 1948 p 63]
Crowther, Bosley. (1947-04-05). "Movie Review - Stallion Road - ' Stallion Road,' Featuring Alexis Smith, Ronald Reagan, Arrives at the Strand - 'St. Francis of Assist' Opens at the Belmont". NYTimes.com.
"Stallion Road (1947) - Overview". Turner Classic Movies.
Variety. (16 August 2018). "Variety (January 1946)". New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company.

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