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Lindsley Parsons (story)
Lindsley Parsons (screenplay)
Release Date:
22 April 1935 (USA) more
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Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They... more | add synopsis
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Bickering Buds more (10 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | John Wayne | ... | John Scott, aka John Jones |
 | Mary Kornman | ... | Anne |
| Paul Fix | ... | Jim |
| Eddy Chandler | ... | Kansas Charlie, aka Rev. Harry Smith |
| Carmen Laroux | ... | Juanita LaRoux (as Carmen LaRoux) |
| Lafe McKee | ... | Poker City Sheriff |
| Al Ferguson | ... | Pete |
| Henry Hall | ... | Farnsworth (Rodeo Promoter) |
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54 min
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Black and White | Color (colorized)
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1.37 : 1 more
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USA:Passed (National Board of Review)
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The rodeo shots are the same as the ones used in The Man from Utah (1934). more
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Continuity: When dressing to see Juanita, Scott changes hats. However the hat is on a hook on the wall when he arrives, but when he leaves he picks it up from the dresser near the door. more
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Featured in 100 Years of John Wayne (2007) (TV) more
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John Wayne and Eddy Chandler play a strange combination of friends in The Desert Trail. Wayne's a fast living rodeo cowboy and Chandler is gambler/conman. They fight a whole lot about everything, cards, liquor, women. There kind of a western version of James Cagney and Pat O'Brien.
When Wayne decides he's not going to get stiffed out of rodeo prize money he won, they take matters into their own hands, taking precisely what's owed Wayne. Of course when two real robbers, Al Ferguson and Paul Fix decide to clean out the rest of the rodeo cash and kill the promoter, our heroes get blamed for it and have to spend nearly the rest of the film on the run.
Of course this is a Lone Star cheapie that the Duke stars in here with production values severely limited. This one however had the potential to be something better. At a better studio with a tighter script and their production values, this could have been a Duke classic.
As it is it's one of his better B pictures from Monogram.