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Director
  
Jerry Hopper

Music director
  
Jack Marshall

Language
  
English

6.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Family, Western

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

The Missouri Traveler movie poster

Writer
  
John Burress
,
Norman S. Hall

Release date
  
January 21, 1958 (1958-01-21)

Producer
  
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney

Cast
  
Brandon De Wilde
(Byron Turner),
Lee Marvin
(Tobias Brown),
Gary Merrill
(Doyle Magee),
Paul Ford
(Finas Daugherty),
Mary Hosford
(Anne Love Price),
Ken Curtis
(Fred Mueller)

Similar movies
  
Brandon deWilde appears in The Missouri Traveler and Blue Denim, Virginias Run (2002), Flash (1997), My Friend Flicka (1943), Two Thoroughbreds (1939)

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The Missouri Traveler is a 1958 American coming-of-age period piece comedy-drama film directed by Jerry Hopper starring Brandon deWilde and Lee Marvin. It is based on the novel of the same name by John Burress. The cinematography was by Technicolor developer Winton C. Hoch with harmonica and banjo score by Jack Marshall of The Munsters fame. The film was distributed by Disney's Buena Vista Corporation.

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It is the second of only 3 films produced by Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's C. V. Whitney Pictures; the first being The Searchers in 1956 with John Wayne and directed by John Ford, the last being The Young Land in 1959 with Patrick Wayne and Dennis Hopper.

Whitney married Mary Hosford, whom he gave a prominent part in this film, the same year it was released. The following year, in 1959, deWilde's career would graduate to more adult themes in Blue Denim.

Plot

Brandon deWilde leads a cast lengthy in character actors playing subdued Biarn Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum bound for Florida in the post-World War I time period of 1926. He receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobias Brown (Lee Marvin). There, after an episode in the town square involving most of the populace, he meets crusty newspaper man Doyle Magee (Gary Merrill).

Both of these men share an interest in the polite and mature youth; one showing kindness, the other almost outright cruelty. Eventually, both of their reasonings become clear to the lad. At the same time, the whole town of Delphi comes to not only accept Biarn, but to embrace him as one of the town's own and his dream of becoming a farmer.

Highlights include a small-town 4th of July parade and celebration with a horse-trotting race and a head-to-head between Magee and Brown.

Cast

  • Brandon deWilde as Biarn Turner
  • Lee Marvin as Tobias Brown
  • Gary Merrill as Doyle Magee
  • Paul Ford as Finas Daugherty
  • Mary Hosford as Anna Love Price
  • Ken Curtis as Fred Mueller
  • Cal Tinney as Clyde Hamilton Baker
  • Frank Cady as Willie Poole
  • Mary Field as Nelda Hamilton
  • Kathleen Freeman as Serena Poole
  • Will Wright as Sheriff Peavy
  • Tom Tiner as Reverend Thomdyke
  • Bill Bryant as Henry Craig
  • Barry Curtis as Jimmy Price
  • Eddie Little as "Red" Poole
  • Roy Jenson as Simpson

    • Home media

    Six different releases of The Missouri Traveler were produced on VHS. Similarly, several DVD versions were released over the years, mainly as an inclusion in a multiple film "family pack". Presently, The Missouri Traveler is available in Region 0 DVD through Reel Enterprises and video on demand in standard pan and scan VHS conversion format. A new DVD of the film was released on April 14, 2015, from VCI Entertainment (VCIV8793DVD).

    References

    The Missouri Traveler Wikipedia
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    The Missouri Traveler IMDb The Missouri Traveler themoviedb.org