The Big Trail

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The Big Trail
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  • Subtitles: English, Spanish
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 20, 2003
  • Originally Released: 1930
  • Label: 20th Century Fox

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User Ratings: 1,988
Visually spectacular early sound Western Full Review
Classic Film and Television
May 28, 2005
This is a wagon-train movie with Wayne's scout at the center....It's interesting to see his persona in this embryonic form....What's really compelling is the authenticity of the wagon train's journey.
Sight and Sound
Aug 1, 2008
...It's a splendid entertainment....The film's look and feel seem way ahead of its time...
Los Angeles Times
Nov 18, 1985
Rating: B+ -- 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. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Dec 21, 2005
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.
New Yorker
Jul 15, 2013
Rating: B- -- John Ford recommended to his friend Walsh bit-part actor Marion Morrison for the lead, and for his first starring role he took the name John Wayne... Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jul 5, 2005
...It comes off as one of the better early talkies...
USA Today
May 30, 2003

Description by OLDIES.com:

One of the first big-screen Western epics, The Big Trail helped establish a then almost unknown John Wayne as the "Duke." In this sweeping pioneer adventure, a courageous young scout (Wayne) leads hundreds of settlers across treacherous cliffs, through 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) whose love he never stops trying to win. Tyrone Power Sr. also stars in this visually spectacular classic that remains one of the greatest movies of its genre.

Product Description:

Pioneers heading for Oregon endure the hardships of weather, unfriendly strangers and internal strife in this sophisticated early sound film. Featuring John Wayne in his first starring role, this straightforward Western tale is now overshadowed by its place in history as an early example of Fox's widescreen Grandeur process, its naturalistic sound, and prototypical Wayne performance.

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  • Sales Rank: 11,950
  • UPC: 024543075356
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