CAST: Charles Starrett (Tom Randall), Iris Meredith (Joan Cameron), Fred Kohler jr (Wayne Cameron), Lee Prather (Jeff Cameron), Raphael "Ray" Bennett (Zack Avery), Blackjack Ward (Abe Avery), Hank Bell (Hank), Bob Nolan (himself), Edmund Cobb (Hobbs), Eddie Hearn (Owens), Ed Coxwen (Seth), Blackie Whiteford, Charles Brinley, Ernie Adams, The Sons of the Pioneers.
Director: SAM NELSON. Screenplay: Charles Francis Royal based on the story The Dawn Trail by Forrest Sheldon. Photography: Lucien Ballard. Film editor: William Lyons. Music director: Morris W. Stoloff. Songs by Bob Nolan. Producer: Harry Decker.
Copyright 6 February 1939 by Columbia Pictures Corp. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 9 February 1939. 6 reels. 57 minutes.
COMMENT: Yes, Virginia, the dialogue is a compendium of clichés, but it's all delivered at such a lively pace, you'll hardly notice. And it's quite a refreshing change to find the heroine's clean-cut brother readily confessing to shooting an innocent nester in the back!
And yes, although liberal use is made of stock footage, there's new action a-plenty, plus effective actual location photography.
Director: SAM NELSON. Screenplay: Charles Francis Royal based on the story The Dawn Trail by Forrest Sheldon. Photography: Lucien Ballard. Film editor: William Lyons. Music director: Morris W. Stoloff. Songs by Bob Nolan. Producer: Harry Decker.
Copyright 6 February 1939 by Columbia Pictures Corp. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 9 February 1939. 6 reels. 57 minutes.
COMMENT: Yes, Virginia, the dialogue is a compendium of clichés, but it's all delivered at such a lively pace, you'll hardly notice. And it's quite a refreshing change to find the heroine's clean-cut brother readily confessing to shooting an innocent nester in the back!
And yes, although liberal use is made of stock footage, there's new action a-plenty, plus effective actual location photography.
