Wyoming Mail | |
Director: | Reginald Le Borg |
Producer: | Aubrey Schenck |
Screenplay: | Harry Essex Leonard Lee |
Story: | Robert Hardy Andrews |
Starring: | Stephen McNally Alexis Smith |
Cinematography: | Russell Metty |
Editing: | Edward Curtiss |
Color Process: | Technicolor |
Studio: | Universal International Pictures |
Distributor: | Universal Pictures |
Runtime: | 87 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Wyoming Mail is a 1950 American Western film directed by Reginald Le Borg and starring Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith.[1] [2] [3]
In 1869, when the railroad mail service is threatened by frequent bandit attacks, the authorities assign federal postal inspector Steve Davis to infiltrate a gang. A former professional boxer, he poses as an escaped convict and joins the criminal operation in order to destroy it from inside.[4]
Wyoming Mail is a western genre Technicolor movie with “B” financing. The picture’s talented cast and director were limited by an undistinguished screenplay: “the cast was certainly superior to the plot of the film.”[5] The railroad scenes were filmed on the Sierra Railroad in Tuolumne County, California.[6] The action involving pursuit of the mail trains by mounted bandits were filmed from camera trucks by cinematographer Russell Metty.[7] LeBorg was particularly pleased with one scene he worked into the production:
The New York Times ranked Wyoming Mail slightly above the average for Hollywood westerns. That the story involves the purloining of the US mail rather than cattle rustling “may not be an original twist but it does have its refreshing moments.” The reviewer offers measured praise for the featured players.[8]