The Trail Beyond (1934)

★★★★★ · Great Entertainment · BardOfMilling · 2013-11-03

John Wayne always provided a good action show, even this film which was early in his career.

★★★★ · John Wayne - They Don't Use Six Shooters in Canada · Poohbah70 · 2019-12-29

This is the 9th in the Lone Star/Paul Mavern Productions series, directed by westerns veteran Robert N. Bradbury (father of westerns star Bob Steele. Its a film with an unusual plot and interesting and different locations suggestive of Canadian pine forests, rather than the American southwest. The plot has Wayne in Canada to find the daughter of his father's friend's estranged brother. Heading north by train he just happens to meet his best friend, Noah Beery, Jr. (Wabi) from his college days. In short order, he becomes involved in a murder Wabi is framed for, escapes by jumping into a river…

★★★ · A "Canadian Western" · djuma · 2011-04-25

This is a fairly good entry in the John Wayne- Lone Star series of low-budget westerns made in the 1930s. Between 1930, when Wayne had his first big break with the lead in the excellent Raoul Walsh western "The Big Trail, and 1939, when he had his second, and star-making break, in John Ford's "Stagecoach," he made a zillion of these lower-grade films. This is not to say they were all bad. They lacked the polished scripts of the bigger-budgeted films, but they had great action, and some good character actors. This one has the father and son team of Noah Beery and Noah Beery, Jr. Beery senior…