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The Desert Trail (1935)

Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City.

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John Scott posing as John Jones
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Anne
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Kansas Charlie posing as Rev. Harry Smith
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Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City. Written by Ed Stephan <[email protected]>

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Caminho do Deserto  »

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The rodeo shots are the same as the ones used in The Man from Utah (1934). See more »

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When dressing to see Juanita, Scott changes hats. However the hat is on a hook on the wall when he arrives, but when he leaves he picks it up from the dresser near the door. See more »

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Sheriff of Rattlesnake Gulch: Maybe we can try him this afternoon and hang him right away and save the county the expense of feeding him.
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Remake of The Ridin' Fool (1931) See more »

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The Last Lap
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Music by Carl Albert Egener
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Bickering Buds
30 October 2006 | by (Buffalo, New York) – See all my reviews

John Wayne and Eddy Chandler play a strange combination of friends in The Desert Trail. Wayne's a fast living rodeo cowboy and Chandler is gambler/conman. They fight a whole lot about everything, cards, liquor, women. There kind of a western version of James Cagney and Pat O'Brien.

When Wayne decides he's not going to get stiffed out of rodeo prize money he won, they take matters into their own hands, taking precisely what's owed Wayne. Of course when two real robbers, Al Ferguson and Paul Fix decide to clean out the rest of the rodeo cash and kill the promoter, our heroes get blamed for it and have to spend nearly the rest of the film on the run.

Of course this is a Lone Star cheapie that the Duke stars in here with production values severely limited. This one however had the potential to be something better. At a better studio with a tighter script and their production values, this could have been a Duke classic.

As it is it's one of his better B pictures from Monogram.


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