The Lonesome Trail is a no frills adult western done in the last years of Lippert Pictures. This kind of material was being done more and more on television. In fact with a little reworking I could easily have seen this story as a Gunsmoke episode.
John Agar is home from the Civil War and finds his father dead and the land taken over by Earle Lyon and a gang of gunslingers he's gathered to enforce his will. Other neighboring properties like those belonging to Douglas Fowley and Edgar Buchanan have been taken as well. And Buchanan's daughter Margia Dean is set to marry Lyon mainly to save the family ranch.
An ambush leaves Agar nearly dead, but Ian McDonald an Indian and Fowley save Agar and teach some skill with a bow and arrow. That sets up a really interesting and unique climax as Agar faces down the bad guys.
Adele Jergens is also on hand as a saloon hostess who's seen her best days gone by. Her scenes have some real bite to them. And Wayne Morris for some reason has top billing though he plays a supporting role as a supportive bartender to Agar.
The Lonesome Trail may be no frills and lack a whole lot of production values, but the cast all give a real good ensemble performance. Western fans will approve.
John Agar is home from the Civil War and finds his father dead and the land taken over by Earle Lyon and a gang of gunslingers he's gathered to enforce his will. Other neighboring properties like those belonging to Douglas Fowley and Edgar Buchanan have been taken as well. And Buchanan's daughter Margia Dean is set to marry Lyon mainly to save the family ranch.
An ambush leaves Agar nearly dead, but Ian McDonald an Indian and Fowley save Agar and teach some skill with a bow and arrow. That sets up a really interesting and unique climax as Agar faces down the bad guys.
Adele Jergens is also on hand as a saloon hostess who's seen her best days gone by. Her scenes have some real bite to them. And Wayne Morris for some reason has top billing though he plays a supporting role as a supportive bartender to Agar.
The Lonesome Trail may be no frills and lack a whole lot of production values, but the cast all give a real good ensemble performance. Western fans will approve.