Santa Fe Trail is a 1940 American western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey and Ronald Reagan. Written by Robert Buckner, the film is about J.E.B. Stuart and his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, his friendship with George Armstrong Custer, and his battles against John Brown in the days leading up to the outbreak of the American Civil War. The film was one of the top-grossing films of the year, being the seventh Flynn--de Havilland collaboration. The film also has nothing to do with its namesake, the famed Santa Fe Trail, except that the trail started in Missouri.
