Tall in the Saddle (1944) on Netflix
Rocklin arrives in Santa Inez to take a foreman's job and learns the ranch owner who hired him, Red Cardell, has been murdered. Harolday hires him to track down the rustlers.
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A stagecoach brings Rocklin, a quiet cowboy, into Santa Inez. He carries a letter from Red Cardell hiring him as foreman of the K.C. Ranch. Miss Martin, another passenger, says the ranch belongs to her niece Clara instead. In town Rocklin learns that Cardell has been murdered. Harolday, who owns the Topaz Ranch, hires him to hunt the gang of rustlers he holds responsible for Cardell's death. Cardell had planned to bring the district judge a set of playing cards marked for cheating that he had come across in a friend's clothing. Clara and Harolday's daughter Arly both take an interest in Rocklin.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tall in the Saddle (1944)
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- Tall in the Saddle was the only film to pair John Wayne and Ella Raines, with Wayne as the tough cowboy Rocklin and Raines as the fiery horsewoman and ranch owner Arly Harolday.
- The novel Tall in the Saddle by Gordon Ray Young was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post from March 7, 1942 to April 25, 1942 before becoming the film.
