The Lonely Trail
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Cast & Crew
Joseph Kane
John Wayne
Ann Rutherford
Cy Kendall
Bob Kortman
Snowflake
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Synopsis
Following the Civil War, carpetbagger Benedict Holden takes over as adjutant general in a small Texas town and taxes the townspeople beyond their means. He terrorizes those who refuse to pay, pilfers greenbacks for himself, and conspires to gain control of the black vote by bribing black leaders with Confederate money. When armed rebels resist taxation, Holden declares martial law, ordering all citizens to surrender their arms. Meanwhile, Union Captain John Ashley returns and learns from Holden that John's best friend, Dick Terry, is the leader of the local rebels. When John visits the Terrys' tavern, his former fiancée, Virginia Terry, rebuffs him as a traitor. When John sees Holden's troops shooting unarmed rebels in the back, he and his friend Jed join Holden's forces in order to warn the tax dodgers against the troops. Jed then gets access to the accounting records that prove Holden's embezzlement. Union Captain Hays, suspecting John, orders him to arrest Dick. Holden's men find Dick escaping with ammunition and almost shoot him, until John fires on them and Dick escapes. When Dick arrives home, the rebels stage his fake funeral. John and Jed are caught by Holden and Hays and placed in a cell to be court-martialed in the morning. While Dick organizes a vigilante group to save John and Jed, the governor of Texas arrives to interrogate Holden. Holden is exonerated, until John and Jed escape and reveal Holden's stash of greenbacks. In a scuffle, Holden and Hays are shot by their own troops, who believe they are John and Jed, and the governor promises to disband the troops after an investigation.
Director
Joseph Kane
Cast
John Wayne
Ann Rutherford
Cy Kendall
Bob Kortman
Snowflake
Sam Flint
Denny Meadows
Jim Tony
Etta Mcdaniels
Yakima Canutt
Lloyd Ingraham
James Marcus
Bob Burns
Rodney Hildebrand
Eugene Jackson
Floyd Shackelford
Jack Kirk
Bud Pope
Tex Phelps
Tracy Layne
Clyde Kenney
Jack Ingram
Leon Lord
George Hayes
Crew
Roy Granville
Harry Grey
Robert Jahns
Terry Kellum
Nat Levine
Paul Malvern
Bernard Mcconville
Bernard Mcconville
Jack Natteford
William Nobles
Murray Seldeen
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Modern sources add the following cast members: Horace B. Carpenter, Oscar Gahan, Francis Walker and Clifton Young.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1936
Released in United States 1936
