The Man Behind the Gun
An undercover government agent battles insurrectionists who want Southern California to secede and become a slave state.
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"Randolph Scott is Major Ransome Callicut, who goes undercover as a school teacher in 1850s California to hopefully thwart separatist plotting as secessionist fervour starts to boil over. The Man Behind The Gun is directed by Felix E. Feist and adapted to screenplay by John Twist from a story by Robert Buckner. It is shot in Technicolor by Bert Glennon (Wagon Master) out of Bell Ranch, Santa Susana, California. Joining Scott in the cast are Patrice Wymore, Dick Wesson, Philip Carey, Lina Romay & Alan Hale Jr. It's true enough that material such as this, well more the themes and basic..."
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The scene where Randolph Scott (Callicut) is chasing Roy Roberts (Sheldon) and jumps onto Sheldon's horse, and the white horse carrying the two men runs off the end of a damaged bridge and falls head first into a river, was actually a scene from the WB film San Antonio (1945).
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An undercover government agent battles insurrectionists who want Southern California to secede and become a slave state.