Wyoming Mail


Wyoming Mail is a 1950 American Western film directed by Reginald Le Borg and starring Stephen McNally and Alexis Smith.

Plot

In 1869, when the railroad mail service is threatened by frequent bandit attacks, the authorities assign federal postal inspector and former professional boxer Steve Davis to infiltrate a gang. He poses as an escaped convict and joins the criminal operation in order to destroy it from the inside.

Cast

The railroad scenes were filmed on the Sierra Railroad in Tuolumne County, California. The action involving pursuit of the mail trains by mounted bandits was filmed from camera trucks by cinematographer Russell Metty. Director Reginald LeBorg was particularly pleased with one scene that he had inserted into the production:

Reception

In a contemporary review for The [New York Times|The ''New York Times''], critic A. H. Weiler wrote: "If the trappings of Technicolor, eye-filling rugged backgrounds, some name players and post-Civil War costuming were stripped from 'Wyoming Mail,' it would be bared as another horse opera. It just about misses that fate. But since the muscular melodrama... does have these attributes, it may be set—a notch, say—above the run-of-the-range sagebrush saga."