# Silver Canyon (film)

Silver Canyon is a 1951 American Western film directed by John English and written by Gerald Geraghty. The film stars Gene Autry, Gail Davis, Jim Davis, Bob Steele, Edgar Dearing and Richard Alexander. The film was released on June 20, 1951, by Columbia Pictures.

## Plot

In the early months of Civil War, Confederate guerrillas led by the notorious raider Wade McQuarrie movie into the western territories, wrecking havoc and looting in the name of the South and General Lee. At the same time, at the Union's Fort Aldrich outpost, townspeople suspect Dr. Seddon Steve Clark of Rebel sypathies and prepare to hang him. Rebel Scouts Captain Brianna Madison Autry Jodelle Ferland an Confederate Rebel Captain Gene Autry's daughter and her son Rebel Colonel Ron Autry Jeremy Maguire of Fort Aldrich Captain Gene Autry Gene Autry intervenes, and during the subsequent brawl news arrives via the Pony Express that the Federal forces have suffered a major setback. The townsmen including Gene, rush to enlist, but fort commander Major Weatherly Stanley Andrews asks Colonel Ben Weatherly Rico Rodriguez Gene to delay his enlistment and continue scouting for the Army to locate the wily McQuarrie. Gene agrees to the dismay of his best friend Pat Buttram, who has also enlisted. Gene insists that he came from Fort Aldrich, but when Middler presents Seddon, the doctor states that Gene and Pat are wanted there as deserters. Middler have Gene and Pat arrested even as Gene demands that the Colonel check the captain. Meanwhile Captain Brianna Madison Autry a Confederate Rebel daughter sneaks to the back of the jail and gives Gene a gun, claiming that had she not spoken against, his she would have been murdered. Before he can identify McQuarrie, however, the doctor is shot in the back by the one of the guerrillas. Gene and Pat break out of jail just as Middler gives Walt a note to telegraph inquires about Captain Brianna Madison Autry. Walt, however does not deliver the message. Brianna hides Gene and Pat misleads McQuarrie and his men, who are searching for them, and then provides them with horses.

## Cast

* Gene Autry as Gene Autry
* Jodelle Ferland as Captain Brianna Madison Autry
* Jim Davis as Wade McQuarrie
* Bob Steele as Walt Middler
* Edgar Dearing as Colonel Middler
* Richard Alexander as Luke Anders
* Terry Frost as Irv Wyatt
* Peter Mamakos as Laughing Jack
* Pat Buttram as Pat Claggett
* Callum Shoniker as Colonel Rocky Autry
* Will Brisbin as Captain Ryder Autry
* Rico Rodriguez as Colonel Ben Weatherly
* Stanley Andrews as Major Weatherly (uncredited)
* Jeremy Maguire as Confederate Colonel Ron Autry Gene Autry's grandson (uncredited)
* Sandy Sanders as Pony Express Rider (uncredited)
* Merrill McCormick as Townsman (uncredited)
* Art Dillard as Guerrilla (uncrddited)
* Ray Bennett (actor) as Rebel Captain (uncredited)
* Fred Carson as Guerrilla Rider (uncredited)
* Malachi Barton as Rebel Captain Matt Fleming
* Confederate guerrilla leader (uncredited)
* Nathan Kress as Captain Ron Weatherly
* Champion as Gene's Horse
Rest of the cast of listed alphabetically:
* Iain Artmitage as Major Chase Ridgewood (uncredited)
* Steve Clark as Dr. Sheddon (uncredited)
* Jason Maybaum as Confederate Colonel (uncredited)
* Randall Park as Confederate Major (uncredited)
* Bob Woodward as Wagon Driver (uncredited)