Allegheny Uprising (1939)
Allegheny Uprising (1939)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Claire Trevor
Janie MacDougall
John Wayne
Jim Smith
George Sanders
Captain Swanson
Brian Donlevy
Callendar
Wilfrid Lawson
MacDougall
Robert Barrat
Duncan
John F. Hamilton
Professor
Moroni Olsen
Calhoon
Eddie Quillan
Anderson
Chill Wills
M'Cammon
Ian Wolfe
Poole
William A. Seiter
Director
Wallis Clark
McGlashan
Monte Montague
Morris
P.J. Wolfson
Writer
Olaf Hytten
General Gage
Neil H. Swanson
Writer
Eddy Waller
Jailer
Clay Clement
John Penn
Anthony Collins
Composer
Earl Askam
One of Jim's Black Boys
Nicholas Musuraca
Cinematographer
George Crone
Editor
Stanley Blystone
Settler at McDowell's Mill
Horace B. Carpenter
One of Jim's Black Boys
Jess Cavin
Colonial Farmer
Tom Coleman
One of Jim's Black Boys
Forrest Dillon
One of Jim's Black Boys
Jesse Graves
Governor's Servant
Lew Harvey
Settler at McDowell's Mill
Leyland Hodgson
Trial Judge Who Protests
Noble Johnson
Captured Delaware Native American
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 10, 1939
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 21m
Content RatingNR
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Wiki.
Allegheny Uprising (released in the UK as The First Rebel) is a 1939 American Adventure Western film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne. Based on the 1937 novel The First Rebel by Neil H. Swanson, with a screenplay by the film's producer, P. J. Wolfson, the film is loosely based on the historical event known as the Black Boys Rebellion, which took place in 1765 after the conclusion of the French and Indian War. It was produced by RKO Pictures.
Clad in buckskin and a coonskin cap (as he would be a decade later in The Fighting Kentuckian), Wayne plays real-life James Smith, an American coping with British rule in colonial America. The supporting cast includes Brian Donlevy, George Sanders and Chill Wills. Claire Trevor and John Wayne also headed the cast of John Ford's Stagecoach the same year, and in both films as well as Dark Command the following year, Trevor is top-billed over Wayne due to her greater name value at the time.
The film did not fare well in its initial release. The superficially similar John Ford film Drums Along the Mohawk had been released only one week prior. In the United Kingdom, where the film kept the original title, it was initially banned by the Ministry of Information for placing the British, already at war against Nazi Germany, in a bad light.