The Barefoot Mailman is a 1951 American historical comedy adventure film directed by Earl McEvoy and starring Robert Cummings, Terry Moore and Jerome Courtland.

Filmed in Super Cinecolor on location in Florida where the events take place, it features many elements of the Western.

[1][2] Set in 1895, Robert Cummings plays a con man, Sylvanus Hurley, who is trying to raise the selling price of land he owns by convincing the residents of Miami that a railroad is coming to town.

Terry Moore is a run-away teenager, Adie Titus, who joins Sylvanus and Steven on their walk by impersonating a child.

"[3] In April 1950 Columbia reported that Alfred Lewis Levitt was writing a screenplay based on the book for the studio.