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7 March 1931 (USA)
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Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over...
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| William Boyd | ... | Bill Holbrook (as Bill Boyd) | |
| Helen Twelvetrees | ... | Mary Ellen Cameron | |
| William Farnum | ... | Bill 'Cash' Holbrook | |
| J. Farrell MacDonald | ... | Jeff Cameron | |
| Clark Gable | ... | Rance Brett | |
| Charles Sellon | ... | Tonopah | |
| Hugh Adams | ... | 'Dynamite' | |
| Wade Boteler | ... | Bob Carson - Ore Wagon #1 Driver | |
| Will Walling | ... | Kirby | |
| Edmund Breese | ... | Judge Matthews | |
| Edward Hearn | ... | Tex (as Guy Edward Hearn) | |
| William Le Maire | ... | Denver (as William LeMaire) | |
| Richard Cramer | ... | Provney - Ore Wagon #1 Shotgun Rider |
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79 min | USA:85 min (copyright length) | 75 min (Turner library print)
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1.20 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Photophone System)
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Clark Gable's talkie debut
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[Cash and Jeff rescue a baby from a deserted wagon]
Cash Holbrook: What have we got that'll feed his gizzard? He can't chaw jerky!
Jeff Cameron: Aw, you don't know nothin'. There's oatmeal gruel and a mite of bacon grease'll see him through.
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Cash Holbrook: What have we got that'll feed his gizzard? He can't chaw jerky!
Jeff Cameron: Aw, you don't know nothin'. There's oatmeal gruel and a mite of bacon grease'll see him through.
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Trail to Mexico (Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie)
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This movie is pretty unwatchable. True Clark Gable is the best thing about this movie but Helen Twelvetrees is pretty in it. At this time most people were trying to talk into the microphone, forget about acting. She does just as good as the other actors in this film.