Just wanted to add my two cents about this film and my experience viewing it. I've always been a big fan of Raoul Walsh and loved High Sierra and White Heat. I consider The Roaring Twenties to be his real masterpiece and one of the best gangster films ever made.
I was lucky enough to view a print of The Big Trail in the theater when it happened to be shown in the grandeur format in 1996 and could not believe my eyes. I had never seen anything like it. It presented such an incredibly vast and panoramic landscape that it was really breathtaking. At that time, I think the only way you could rent it was to see a chopped up pan and scan VHS copy.
To this day it remains one of the most beautiful things I've seen in a movie theater and I would jump at the chance to see it in the grandeur format again.
I was lucky enough to view a print of The Big Trail in the theater when it happened to be shown in the grandeur format in 1996 and could not believe my eyes. I had never seen anything like it. It presented such an incredibly vast and panoramic landscape that it was really breathtaking. At that time, I think the only way you could rent it was to see a chopped up pan and scan VHS copy.
To this day it remains one of the most beautiful things I've seen in a movie theater and I would jump at the chance to see it in the grandeur format again.