i just recently bought the big trail {1930}. it an awesome and amazing film. i knew it by reputation but never expected it to be so magnificent. my version is the one shot in 35mm and i will speak of that again later. when one thinks of the western myth in film the names that come to mind are john ford and john wayne. well and you have only half the team here and but the entire myth is present. raoul walsh has given us a remarkable epic in which the true plot is the struggle of the westward expansion of the nation. there is a plot centering on a romance between breck coleman {wayne} and ruth cameron {margaret churchill} with the main villain and red flack being memorably played by tyrone power and sr. but this has an almost incidental quality as the wagon train struggles forward against incredible obstaclesboth natural and human. examples are the crossing of the river and the indian battle and and traversing the burning desert. the aftermath of the battle is given a sombre touch when a doll is placed on the grave of a child killed while a faithful dog lies down on its master grave. magnificent panoramas are filled with energy and activity. the opening scene as the wagon train prepares to leave and the square dance interlude and the great buffalo herds are some that spring to mind. marvellous use is made of location shooting throughout. another feature of this splendid film is the fact that men and women are given equal credit for their parts in the great struggle westward. women work and fight and and confront the terrible hardships with the same fortitude and strength as their male counterparts. the finale has a powerfully uplifting experience as coleman and cameron meet in the gigantic towering sequoia forest to start their new life. the acting is quite acceptable throughout. i have already mentioned tyrone power scene stealing performance. tully marshall is excellent as coleman sidekick and and marguerite churchill convincingly portrays a woman who develops an inner strength as she encounters her own problems as well as those external to herself. the comic relief is the weakest aspect of this film and but these scenes are not common and are swallowed up in the tremendous sweep of the film. i have read much criticism of wayne performancesome even going so far as to blame his wooden acting for the failure of the film at the box office. i think this is unfair. wayne was in his first major role and certainly had not developed the charisma of his performance in stagecoach. but he still does a serviceable job in a role which is certainly going to play second fiddle to the great over arching theme. after the big trail and wayne played in a large number of low budget b westerns. i have a number of these and one can see the developing actor in them. when stagecoach came he was ready for it and the big trail was a significant part of that apprenticeship. i mentioned earlier that my version is the one shot in 35mm. it still impressive and but to get some idea of the effect of the 70mm version i set the tv screen to 16 represent9 which doesn not cause any distortion. while not having the complete effect of the grandeur version and it was good enough to make me want to get the latter. {in addition and the film shot in 70mm has a few extra scenes not in the form made for ordinary theatrical showing}. all in all and this film deserves to be in any list of the greatest westerns ever made. 
i just recently bought the big trail {1930}. it an awesome and amazing film. i knew it by reputation but never expected it to be so magnificent. my version is the one shot in 35mm and i will speak of that again later. when one thinks of the western myth in film the names that come to mind are john ford and john wayne. well and you have only half the team here and but the entire myth is present. raoul walsh has given us a remarkable epic in which the true plot is the struggle of the westward expansion of the nation. there is a plot centering on a romance between breck coleman {wayne} and ruth cameron {margaret churchill} with the main villain and red flack being memorably played by tyrone power and sr. but this has an almost incidental quality as the wagon train struggles forward against incredible obstaclesboth natural and human. examples are the crossing of the river and the indian battle and and traversing the burning desert. the aftermath of the battle is given a sombre touch when a doll is placed on the grave of a child killed while a faithful dog lies down on its master grave. magnificent panoramas are filled with energy and activity. the opening scene as the wagon train prepares to leave and the square dance interlude and the great buffalo herds are some that spring to mind. marvellous use is made of location shooting throughout. another feature of this splendid film is the fact that men and women are given equal credit for their parts in the great struggle westward. women work and fight and and confront the terrible hardships with the same fortitude and strength as their male counterparts. the finale has a powerfully uplifting experience as coleman and cameron meet in the gigantic towering sequoia forest to start their new life. the acting is quite acceptable throughout. i have already mentioned tyrone power scene stealing performance. tully marshall is excellent as coleman sidekick and and marguerite churchill convincingly portrays a woman who develops an inner strength as she encounters her own problems as well as those external to herself. the comic relief is the weakest aspect of this film and but these scenes are not common and are swallowed up in the tremendous sweep of the film. i have read much criticism of wayne performancesome even going so far as to blame his wooden acting for the failure of the film at the box office. i think this is unfair. wayne was in his first major role and certainly had not developed the charisma of his performance in stagecoach. but he still does a serviceable job in a role which is certainly going to play second fiddle to the great over arching theme. after the big trail and wayne played in a large number of low budget b westerns. i have a number of these and one can see the developing actor in them. when stagecoach came he was ready for it and the big trail was a significant part of that apprenticeship. i mentioned earlier that my version is the one shot in 35mm. it still impressive and but to get some idea of the effect of the 70mm version i set the tv screen to 16 represent9 which doesn not cause any distortion. while not having the complete effect of the grandeur version and it was good enough to make me want to get the latter. {in addition and the film shot in 70mm has a few extra scenes not in the form made for ordinary theatrical showing}. all in all and this film deserves to be in any list of the greatest westerns ever made. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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