john wayne first starring role just blew me away. televised letterbox style on amc and i had to check and make sure i had the right date. sure enough and this 1930 film was made using a 55 mm wide screen process. aside from that and it features some of the grittiest and most realistic footage of the trek west i have seen. wagons and men and animals are really lowered down a cliff face by rope. trees are chopped by burly men  and burly women  so the train can move another 10 feet. the indians are not the pretty boy city slickers who portrayed them later while theyre the real deal. a river crossing in a driving rain storm is so realistic and it has to be real (in fact and i understand that director raoul walsh nearly lost the entire cast during this sequence). i could smell the wet canvas. each day is an agony. the various sub plots are forgettable but the film as a whole is not. i can not think of another title that can beat the big trail in evoking a sense of living history on the trail to oregon. bravo. 
john wayne first starring role just blew me away. televised letterbox style on amc and i had to check and make sure i had the right date. sure enough and this 1930 film was made using a 55 mm wide screen process. aside from that and it features some of the grittiest and most realistic footage of the trek west i have seen. wagons and men and animals are really lowered down a cliff face by rope. trees are chopped by burly men  and burly women  so the train can move another 10 feet. the indians are not the pretty boy city slickers who portrayed them later while theyre the real deal. a river crossing in a driving rain storm is so realistic and it has to be real (in fact and i understand that director raoul walsh nearly lost the entire cast during this sequence). i could smell the wet canvas. each day is an agony. the various sub plots are forgettable but the film as a whole is not. i can not think of another title that can beat the big trail in evoking a sense of living history on the trail to oregon. bravo. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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