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The Desert Trail (1935) -- Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City.

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Director:

Lewis D. Collins

Writers:

Lindsley Parsons (story)
Lindsley Parsons (screenplay)

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Release Date:

22 April 1935 (USA) more

Genre:

Western more

Plot:

Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They... more | add synopsis

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Cast

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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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Additional Details

Runtime:

54 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color (colorized)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Filming Locations:

Kernville, California, USA more


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

The rodeo shots are the same as the ones used in The Man from Utah (1934). more

Goofs:

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

Movie Connections:

Featured in 100 Years of John Wayne (2007) (TV) more


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8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Bickering Buds, 30 October 2006
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Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

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.

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