John Wayne	John Scott
Mary Kornman	Anne
Paul Fix	Jim
Eddy Chandler	Kansas Charlie
Carmen La Roux	Juanita
Lafe [Lafayette] McKee	Sheriff Barker
Al Ferguson	Pete
Henry Hall	Banker
Carmen Laroux	Juanita LaRoux
Lafe McKee	Poker City Sheriff
Silver Tip Baker	Poker Player
Frank Ball	Jake

Regisseur	Robert North Bradbury Cullin Lewis Lewis D. Collins
Producent	Paul Malvern
Schrijver	Lindsley Parsons

John Wayne's easy-going charm truly began to manifest itself in this, one of his later "Lone Star" Westerns for Monogram. Falsely accused of killing the paymaster (Henry Hall) of the Rattlesnake Gulch rodeo, John Scott (Wayne) and his girl-chasing partner Kansas Charlie (Eddy Chandler) trail the real killer, Pete (Al Ferguson), and his unwilling underling Jim (Paul Fix) to Poker City. Jim wants to go straight, but Pete blackmails him into robbing the stagecoach. John and Kansas, who are known in town as Jones and the Reverend Smith, are once again accused of the crime, but Jim helps them escape from jail. When the young bandit refuses to commit bank robbery, Pete shoots him in cold blood. The villain is caught by John and Kansas, whom Jim has cleared of all crimes on his deathbed. Besides one of Wayne's better early performances, The Desert Trail — whose title bears no close scrutiny — also benefitted from the presence of Frank Capra-regular Eddy Chandler, a rotund comic actor whose sparring here with Wayne is first-rate all the way. Paul Fix is equally good as the outlaw with a conscience and Mary Kornman, of Our Gang fame, is tolerable as the obligatory heroine. The Desert Trail was directed with easy assurance by the veteran Lewis D. Collins, who for some reason billed himself "Cullin Lewis." — Hans J. Wollstein

Editie gegevens Filmkeuring Passed Land USA Taal English Regio Region 2 Release Datum 2003 Ondertitels English; Nederlands Geluidssporen Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Lagen Enkelzijdig, Enkellaags Aantal Disks/Banden 1

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