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Name: The Big Trail
Released: 1930-10-24
Cast: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall, Tyrone Power Sr.

The Big Trail

NR
2h 3m
1930

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In this sweeping pioneer adventure, a courageous young scout (WAYNE) leads hundreds of settlers across treacherous cliffs, though brutal snowstorms, Indian attacks and buffalo stampedes to their destiny out West. Along the way, he loses his heart to a beautiful pioneer woman (MARGUERITE CHURCHILL) and never stops trying to win her love. TYRONE POWER co-stars in this visually spectacular epic.

Director:

Raoul Walsh

Producer:

Winfield Sheehan

Writer:

Marie Boyle, Jack Peabody, Fred Sersen, Florence Postal

Cast:

John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall, Tyrone Power Sr., David Rollins, Frederick Burton

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Reviews

Chicago Reader

Fred Camper

The oddly meditative quality of Walsh’s long takes, the curious lack of a dominant narrative tension controlling the film’s space, and the oddly disjunct tableau-to-tableau editing combine to make a statement quite different...

Integrating the settlers' passionate mortal conflicts into the landscape, Walsh turns the theatrical limitations of early sound technique to an advantage, composing vast, static tableaux with the mighty breadth and noble pace of epic stanzas.

June 22, 2017

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Kansas City Kansan

Steve Crum

More historical than anything, but a must for Wayne fans.

June 21, 2017

EmanuelLevy.Com

Emanuel Levy

Raoul Walsh believed that John Wayne would become a big star after his epic Western but he did not. A combo of factors account for this failure, not just Wayne's stiff acting but also the cool reception of the horseopera itself.

June 21, 2017

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Los Angeles CityBeat

Andy Klein

June 21, 2017