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The Big Trail

Year:
Duration:
125 min (35 mm version) | 158 min (70 mm version) | 120 min (FMC Library Print) | 122 min (TCM print)
Genres:
Adventure | Western | Romance
IMDB rate:
7.3
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Awards:
1 win
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1930-11-01
Filming Locations: Buttercup Dunes, Imperial County, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
John Wayne
Breck Coleman
Marguerite Churchill
Ruth Cameron
El Brendel
Gus
Tully Marshall
Zeke
Tyrone Power Sr.
Red Flack (as Tyrone Power)
David Rollins
Dave Cameron
Frederick Burton
Pa Bascom
Ian Keith
Bill Thorpe
Charles Stevens
Lopez
Louise Carver
Gus's mother-in-law
Victor Adamson
Wagon Train Man (uncredited)
Ward Bond
Sid Bascom (uncredited)
Nino Cochise
Indian (uncredited)
Iron Eyes Cody
Indian (uncredited)
Don Coleman
Wrangler (uncredited)
Jack Curtis
Pioneer (uncredited)
Emslie Emerson
Sairey (uncredited)
Alphonse Ethier
Marshal (uncredited)
Dannie Mac Grant
(uncredited)
Marcia Harris
Mrs. Riggs (uncredited)
Marilyn Harris
Pioneer Girl (uncredited)
DeWitt Jennings
Boat Captain Hollister (uncredited)
Marjorie Leet
Mildred Riggs (uncredited)
Marion Lessing
(uncredited)
William V. Mong
Wellmore (uncredited)
Pete Morrison
Wrangler (uncredited)
Dodo Newton
Abigail Vance (uncredited)
Jack Padjan
Pioneer (uncredited)
Helen Parrish
Honey Girl Cameron (uncredited)
Robert Parrish
Pioneer Boy (uncredited)
Jack Peabody
Bill Gillis (uncredited)
Russ Powell
Windy Bill (uncredited)
Frank Rainboth
Ohio Man (uncredited)
Apache Bill Russell
(uncredited)
Andy Shuford
Ohio Man's Son (uncredited)
Gertrude Van Lent
Sister from Missouri
Lucille Van Lent
Sister from Missouri
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Trivia
According to the Nov. 12, 1930 issue of the Idaho Falls Post, this movie was once set to be titled "The Oregon Trail". The change, as stated, was made in response to the requests from nearby residents of Jackson, WY, where the bulk of the movie was filmed.
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Incredibly, six different versions of this film were shot simultaneously. (1) a 70mm version in the Grandeur process for exhibition in the biggest movie palaces; (2) a standard 35mm version for general release; (3) a 35mm alternate French language version La piste des géants (1931)' (4) a 35 mm alternate Spanish language version La gran jornada (1931),(5) a 35 mm alternate German language version Die große Fahrt (1931)and (6) a 35mm alternate Italian language version Il grande sentiero (1931). The four alternate language versions were shot with (mostly) different casts.
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This was his only talking film of Tyrone Power Sr., father of Tyrone Power. He died in 1931.
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Goofs
After Thorpe is killed while trying to murder Breck Coleman (John Wayne), Flack (Tyrone Power Sr.) talks about dismissing Breck as a guide. While he does this, Ward Bond (standing to the right) is clearly mouthing Flack's lines.
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In the last scene where Breck and Ruth are reunited, Breck comes up the trail and is seen by Ruth. A close up of Breck shows him carrying his rifle in his right hand. Breck starts to run to meet Ruth. The shot shifts to a distant shot as we watch Ruth and Breck running to each other. Breck's rifle is now slung over his shoulder.
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Quotes
Ruth Cameron: Zack, you're not really leaving us?
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Caption: Dedicated to the men and women who planted civilization in the wilderness and courage in the blood of their children. 1 of 1 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Permalink Hide options Caption: Prairie schooners rolling west, praying for peace - but ready for battle. 1 of 1 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Permalink Hide options Caption: The last outpost, the turning back place for the weak; the starting place for the strong. 1 of 1 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Permalink Hide options Caption: They have not turned back, those who died; they stay and yet they go forward. Their spirit leads. 1 of 1 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Permalink Hide options Caption: Ten weary miles a day. There is no road, but there is a will, and history cuts the way. 1 of 1 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Permalink Hide options Breck Coleman, Wagon Train Scout: We can't turn back! We're blazing a trail that started in England. Not even the storms of the sea could turn back the first settlers. And they carrie dit on further. They blazed it on through the wilderness of Kentucky. Famine, hunger, not even massacres could stop them. And now we picked up the trail again. And nothing can stop us! Not even the snows of winter, nor the peaks of the highest mountain. We're building a nation and we got to suffer! No great trail was ever built without hardship. And you got to fight! That's right. And when you stop fighting, that's death. What are you going to do, lay down and die? Not in a thousand years! You're going on with me!
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Ruth Cameron: They say you're going to hunt down Flack and Lopez.
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Photos from cast
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