The Big Trail

Raoul Walsh, Fox Film Corporation, 1930. John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, and El Brendel in the leads. A large caravan of settlers attempts to cross the Western United States on the Oregon Trail. Breck Coleman is a young trapper who just got back to Missouri from his travels near Santa Fe, seeking to avenge the death of an old trapper friend who was killed the winter before along the Santa Fe Trail for his furs, by Red Flack and his minion Lopez. US 1929/30 title; renewal not checked title-by-title. About 125 minutes; Wikimedia Commons print.