Dalton Gang - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • A largely fictional film version of the Daltons' lives was made in 1940 as When the Daltons Rode starring Randolph Scott, Broderick Crawford and Brian Donlevy.
  • The motion picture The Cimarron Kid (1952) about the Dalton Gang starred Audie Murphy as Bill Doolin.
  • The Daltons are regularly recurring adversaries in the Lucky Luke comic book series. Joe, Jack, William, and Averell Dalton are portrayed as the somewhat inept cousins of the real-life Daltons, who appear in one album, Hors-la-loi.
  • A fictional French film based on the Lucky Luke comic strip called Les Dalton came out in 2004.
  • "The Dalton Gang" is a half hour version of their lives in a 1954 episode of the American TV series Stories of the Century with Myron Healey as Bob Dalton, Fess Parker as Grat, Robert Bray as Emmett and John Mooney as Bill Dalton.
  • "The Dalton Girls" (1957) is a fictional B-grade western in which the daughters continue in the ways of their brothers. It also features early rebellious feminist themes.
  • The gang is mentioned in the movie Tombstone in 1993.
  • Doolin-Dalton, by The Eagles, revolves around The Dalton Gang's story.
  • The Dalton Brothers is the name of a parody country and western band briefly impersonated by U2 during their 1987 Joshua Tree U.S. tour.
  • There were various fictional "Dalton Gangs" created by Hanna-Barbera appearing in various productions, most notably with Huckleberry Hound.
  • Joe Dassin authored a song called "Les Daltons", loosely based on the brothers' portrayal in the Lucky Luke comic book. It was widely acclaimed as one of Dassin's most famous songs..
  • The CBS documentary anthology series You Are There offered the 1957 episode "The End of the Dalton Gang (October 5, 1892)", with Tyler MacDuff in the role of Emmett Dalton.
  • In the video game Red Dead Redemption, there is a gang called "Walton's gang" which is loosely based on the Dalton gang.
  • In the 2002 movie Reign of Fire Matthew McConaughey's character is from Coffeyville, KS, and references the historical shoot-out between the townspeople and the Dalton Boys.
  • The 1991 Max McCoy novel "The Sixth Rider" tells of the group's exploits from the vantage point on the possible sixth member involved in the Coffeyville bank holdups.
  • The Dalton Gang is referenced in the Morgan Kane book "Killer Kane" about the fictional gunslinger.

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