The Proud Rebel (1958) on Netflix
Approved19581h 43mDramaWestern
Confederate veteran John Chandler reaches an Illinois town seeking a doctor for his son David, who has not spoken since his mother died. A street brawl leaves him facing a fine.
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Plot summary
David, ten years old, has been mute since watching his mother die in a fire that Union soldiers set at the family homestead. His father, John Chandler, a Confederate veteran, brings him to a town in Illinois to see Dr. Enos Davis, who says a surgeon in Minnesota may be able to help. In the street, Chandler's sheepdog Lance clears a flock of sheep from the road; the herd belongs to rancher Harry Burleigh, whose sons Jeb and Tom try to take the dog. Chandler fights them, is knocked out, and is falsely blamed for the brawl, leaving him to pay thirty dollars or spend thirty days in jail. Linnett Moore, who shielded David during the fight, pays the fine so that he can work it off on her ranch, where Burleigh is pressing her to sell her land.
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- Kingas Lance, David's Dog
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Proud Rebel (1958)
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- Goldwyn Jr. cast Alan Ladd's son David as the mute boy after the frightened, stiff child's face lit up when Goldwyn talked to him about his father.
- The Proud Rebel inspired Indian actor Kishore Kumar to remake it as Door Gagan Ki Chhaon Mein in 1964, with his real-life son Amit Kumar playing the mute son.
- The Proud Rebel's exteriors were shot in Utah, at Cedar City, Cedar Mountain, Rush Valley and Johnson Canyon, standing in for the flat, well-vegetated U.S. Midwest and looking jarring against Utah's arid, hilly, mountainous terrain.
