Springfield Rifle
Directed by Andre de Toth 93 mins (1952)
Gary Cooper - Maj. Alex “Lex” Kearney
Major Lex Kearney, dishonorably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, has actually volunteered to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.
Western set during the Civil War.
Also starring Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian, Paul Kelly, Philip Carey and Lon Chaney Jr.
While filming at Lone Pine, California, at the base of Mount Whitney, a mushroom cloud from a nuclear device was seen on the horizon coming from a Nevada nuclear test site. The test site was operational from 1951 until 1992.
Tagline - The Gun That Made One Man The Equal Of Five!