Secret Philadelphia (A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure)
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Released July 01, 1948
Featuring Joe DeRita (Solo)
Featuring Joe DeRita (Solo)
Columbia
93 min. (Feature Film)
93 min. (Feature Film)
A stage is ambushed and robbed by a white man leading a band of renegade Indians, and the passengers are killed, except for a young woman who is abducted. Eighteen months later, loner Chris Danning (Randolph Scott) learns that the woman, his fiancee, killed herself in the Indian camp. With a description of the white man, he scours the southwest until he arrives in Coroner Creek and finds him... wealthy rancher Younger Miles (George Macready). Miles, a greedy and abusive man who employs thugs like Ernie Combs (Forrest Tucker) for ranchhands, is married to the Sheriff's (Edgar Buchanan) daughter. A rival rancher, widow Della Harms, finds herself being squeezed out when her cattle are restricted from good grazing land due to Miles' schemes. Danning accepts Harm's offer of ranch foreman, a position he can use to fight against Miles and slowly earn his revenge.
Joe DeRita cameos in a few scenes, as the town's barkeep.
Avg. Rating: 
[6.00/10]
[6.00/10]
Randolph Scott
Chris Danning
George Macready
Younger Miles
Edgar Buchanan
Sheriff O'Hea
Marguerite Chapman
Kate Hardison
Sally Eilers
Della Harms
Barbara Read
Abbe Miles
Forrest Tucker
Ernie Combs
Wallace Ford
Andy West
Douglas Fowley
Stew Shallis
Walter Soderling
Charlie Weatherby
Joe Sawyer
Frank Yordy
William Bishop
Leach Conover
Lee Bennett
Tip Henry
Warren Jackson
Ray Flanders
Phil Schumacher
Bill Arnold
Russell Simpson
Walt Hardison
Joe DeRita
Jack, bartender
Sailor Vincent
2nd bartender
Charles Stevens
Indian
Dewey Robinson
B. J., waystation bartender
Forrest Taylor
McCune
Jack Montgomery
Townsman
Victor Cox
Townsman
Paul E. Burns
Townsman
Hank Mann
Townsman
John Halloran
Barfly
Jack Casey
Barfly
Jock Mahoney
stunts
Ray Enright
Director
Harry Joe Brown
Producer
Luke Short
Novel
Kenneth Gamet
Screenplay
Fred Jackman Jr.
Director of Photography
Harvey Manger
Film Editor
George Van Marter
Art Director
George Sawley
Set Decoration
Willam R. Fox
Sound Recording
David Chudnow
Musical Supervision
Rudy Schrager
Musical Score
Lee Greenway
Makeup
Helen Hunt
Hair Stylist
Aaron Rosenberg
Assistant Director
Joe Popkin
Production Manager
Bob Gough
Camera
Henry Maak
Grip
Mary Gibsone
Script Supervisor
Gar Gilbert
Cinecolor Supervisor
Irving Lippman
Still Photography
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