John Wayne

Marguerite Churchill

El Brendel

Tully Marshall

Tyrone Power Sr.

David Rollins

Frederick Burton

Ian Keith

Charles Stevens

Louise Carver

Beth Nagel

Victor Adamson

Phyllis Bainbridge

Chief John Big Tree

Ward Bond

Martin Cichy

Don Coleman

Nancy Crowley

Curley Dresden

Adabelle Driver

Emslie Emerson

Alphonse Ethier

Theresa Garon

William Gillis

Dannie Mac Grant

Virginia Griffith

Marcia Harris

Marilyn Harris

Al Haskell

DeWitt Jennings

Jack Kenny

Bert Keys

John Lawrence Kneedy

Ann Kunde

Marjorie Leet

Marion Lessing

Frances Martinson

Frank McGrath

William V. Mong

Pete Morrison

Dodo Newton

Artie Ortego

Jack Padjan

Helen Parrish

Robert Parrish

Harvey Parry

Jack Peabody

Russ Powell

Frank Rainboth

Apache Bill Russell

Lucile Sewall

Andy Shuford

Tom Smith

Jean Stoddard

Gertrude Van Lent

Lucille Van Lent

Whitehorse

Raoul Walsh

Jack Dennis

Arthur Edeson

Hal G. Evarts

Louis Witte

Harold Miles

Fred Sersen

George Leverett

Archibald Buchanan

Drama

Western

The Big Trail

Fox Film Corporation

United States of America

English

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There is a scene very near the start of this film where John Wayne ("Breck") walks through a doorway, bedecked in his finely crafted suede leathers and you almost want to applaud - like it was the entrance of great actor onto a stage. There can been no doubt that Raoul Walsh and his bosses at Fox were determined to make a big star of their man - and have thrown pretty much everything at it. The story concerns pioneers on a long and dangerous wagon trail leaving the Mississippi heading west into the unknown, It's the epitome of an American adventure film - the travellers face perils both human and natural as they head for their promised land, and the scale of the production is of a high quality with beautiful and grand cinematography contributing really well to our sense of just how tough their task was. Wayne oozes charm, his smile explains a great deal about why Hollywood and the public at large fell in love with this decent, honourable young man. A competent Marguerite Campbell ("Ruth") provides his suitably feisty love interest and the rest of this slightly over-long tale is held together by a relatively small cast who keep the story interesting and focused. Sure, it isn't without it's idealism - the all American boy blazes a trail against the odds, gets the gal, makes friends wherever he goes (largely), but there are some more sincere touches - "Breck" isn't quite so good with his alcohol! At times this borders a little too much on the documentary, but that doesn't really impact detrimentally on the overall narrative - it further reinforces the scale of this unyoked land and to a considerable extent helps us to understand what drove these folks to suffer all the hardships this hostile environment could throw at them. As cinema goes, this is proper stuff - and seeing it on a big screen even now (90 years later) is still quite an experience.

The Big Trail

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