''Wild Horse Mesa'' is a 1947 American

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film directed by

Wallace Grissell Wallace Grissell (3 September 1904 – 5 April 1954) was a British director and editor. Filmography *'' The Tiger Woman'' (1944) *''Marshal of Reno'' (1944) *''Haunted Harbor'' (1944) *''Vigilantes of Dodge City'' (1944) *''Zorro's Black Whip ...

and starring Tim Holt,

Nan Leslie Nanette June Leslie (June 4, 1926 – July 30, 2000) was an American actress. She was known for playing Martha McGivern in the American western television series '' The Californians''. Life and career Leslie was born in Los Angeles, Cali ...

, and Richard Martin. It was written by Norman Houston, based on the novel of the same name by

Zane Grey Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontie ...

. It was the eighth and last of a series of

novels filmed by RKO. The book had been previously filmed in 1925 (starring Holt's father) and 1933.Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, ''The RKO Story.'' New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p222

Plot

Two cowboys go to work for a rancher and his beautiful daughter. Together they search for wild horses. When they find the horses, a rival rancher offers to purchase them, but during the transaction he murders the good rancher. The rival rancher is soon killed by one of his own men, and he in turn is killed by the wild horse who is the leader of the herd.

Cast

Production

The film was shot at RKO's backlot in Encino and at Lone Pine.

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