The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)





Katie Elder bore four sons. The day she was buried, they all came back to Clearwater in Texas to pay their last respects: John, the eldest, a gunslinger; Tom, the gambler; Matt, the quiet one; and Bud, the youngest, still at college. The brothers discover that, in her last days, Katie Elder no longer owned her ranch and died penniless. John learns that Pa Elder supposedly gambled away the ranch when he was drunk - and was killed the same night. The only witnesses were Dave Hastings and his father Morgan. The sheriff warns the Elders to stay out of trouble. But the responsibility they should have shouldered years ago drives them on to find the truth.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Sons of Katie Elder

Fred Landesman
The John Wayne Filmography
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2004

Mark Ricci, Boris Zmijewsky, Steve Zmijewsky
The Complete Films of John Wayne
New York, NY, 1995

Books with an entry on The Sons of Katie Elder

Herb Fagen
The encyclopedia of westerns
New York, 2003