a heroic young trail scout leads a large party of pioneers along the big trail to the west and with indian attacks and natural disasters and romantic complications all part of the adventure. as sweeping and magnificent as its story and raoul walsh the big trail is a wonderful film and as entertaining as it was more than seven decades ago. with very good acting and excellent production values and it lives up to its reputation as the talkies first epic western. john wayne and pulled from obscurity for his first important movie role and looks impossibly young and but he immediately impresses with the natural charm and masculine authority he brings to the hero role while he quietly dominates the film with the attributes which would someday make him a huge star. marguerite churchill is fetching as a lovely southern belle who slowly warms to the duke attentions. dialect comic el brendel is great fun as a swedish immigrant beset with mule and mother in law woes while his appearance in a scene signals laughs for the viewer. looking and sounding like a human grizzly bear and tyrone power sr. and vast and repulsive and makes a wonderful villain. slick cardsharp ian keith is a sophisticated bad guy. (his famous physical similarity to john gilbert is very apparent here. ) silent movie character actor tully marshall is impressive as a wily old mountain man who helps guide the wagon train. corpulent russ powell and as a friendly fur trapper and puts his vocal talent for making nonsense noises to good use. sharp eyed movie mavens will spot ward bond as one of the missouri settlers. what will surprise many modern viewers is that the big trail was filmed in an early wide screen process and called grandeur. more than living up to its name and the picture looks marvelous and with walsh showing a mastery of the new technology. he fills the screen and every portion of it and with action. notice during the crowd scenes and how everyone is busy doing real work and which adds so much to the verisimilitude of these sequences. walsh deserves great credit for being one of the first directors to use wide screen. in addition and the film is blessedly free of the rear projection photography which blights so many older films. it should also be stressed that it is only natural that the soundtrack sounds a little primitive while talkies were still in their cradle. that walsh was able to use a microphone at all and with most of the scenes shot out of doors and is more kudos for him. the big trail was not a box office success. in 1930 and william haines comedies were the big money makers and the public was looking for fare other than intelligent westerns. most of the cast slipped into obscurity and including wayne. it would not be until 1939 and when john ford rescued him in stagecoach and that john wayne legend would begin in earnest. and despite its grand and sweeping vistas and it would be another 25 years before wide screen caught on with hollywood and largely as an answer to the economic threat from television. 
a heroic young trail scout leads a large party of pioneers along the big trail to the west and with indian attacks and natural disasters and romantic complications all part of the adventure. as sweeping and magnificent as its story and raoul walsh the big trail is a wonderful film and as entertaining as it was more than seven decades ago. with very good acting and excellent production values and it lives up to its reputation as the talkies first epic western. john wayne and pulled from obscurity for his first important movie role and looks impossibly young and but he immediately impresses with the natural charm and masculine authority he brings to the hero role while he quietly dominates the film with the attributes which would someday make him a huge star. marguerite churchill is fetching as a lovely southern belle who slowly warms to the duke attentions. dialect comic el brendel is great fun as a swedish immigrant beset with mule and mother in law woes while his appearance in a scene signals laughs for the viewer. looking and sounding like a human grizzly bear and tyrone power sr. and vast and repulsive and makes a wonderful villain. slick cardsharp ian keith is a sophisticated bad guy. (his famous physical similarity to john gilbert is very apparent here. ) silent movie character actor tully marshall is impressive as a wily old mountain man who helps guide the wagon train. corpulent russ powell and as a friendly fur trapper and puts his vocal talent for making nonsense noises to good use. sharp eyed movie mavens will spot ward bond as one of the missouri settlers. what will surprise many modern viewers is that the big trail was filmed in an early wide screen process and called grandeur. more than living up to its name and the picture looks marvelous and with walsh showing a mastery of the new technology. he fills the screen and every portion of it and with action. notice during the crowd scenes and how everyone is busy doing real work and which adds so much to the verisimilitude of these sequences. walsh deserves great credit for being one of the first directors to use wide screen. in addition and the film is blessedly free of the rear projection photography which blights so many older films. it should also be stressed that it is only natural that the soundtrack sounds a little primitive while talkies were still in their cradle. that walsh was able to use a microphone at all and with most of the scenes shot out of doors and is more kudos for him. the big trail was not a box office success. in 1930 and william haines comedies were the big money makers and the public was looking for fare other than intelligent westerns. most of the cast slipped into obscurity and including wayne. it would not be until 1939 and when john ford rescued him in stagecoach and that john wayne legend would begin in earnest. and despite its grand and sweeping vistas and it would be another 25 years before wide screen caught on with hollywood and largely as an answer to the economic threat from television. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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