During the middle Forties, Warner Brothers was trying what might have become a new genre in films. They would take some of their previous big budget films with footage previously and re-edit them into short subjects. The story that would have taken two hours to tell would be done in now fifteen to twenty minutes.
Trial By Trigger is a cut down version of Valley Of The Giants and the roles played by Wayne Morris and Claire Trevor were now done by Robert Shayne and Cheryl Walker. Years before he became Inspector Henderson on Superman, Shayne was apparently the young contract player whom these cut down remakes were given.
Try to tell a story that had previously been a feature film in 20 minutes and inevitably much would be lost. That's what happened and that's why these short subjects never took hold. Can you imagine MGM trying to do edit down Gone With The Wind that way?
Trial By Trigger is a cut down version of Valley Of The Giants and the roles played by Wayne Morris and Claire Trevor were now done by Robert Shayne and Cheryl Walker. Years before he became Inspector Henderson on Superman, Shayne was apparently the young contract player whom these cut down remakes were given.
Try to tell a story that had previously been a feature film in 20 minutes and inevitably much would be lost. That's what happened and that's why these short subjects never took hold. Can you imagine MGM trying to do edit down Gone With The Wind that way?