The Trail Beyond

Infobox_Film
name = The Trail Beyond


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imdb_id = 0025903
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director = Robert Bradbury
writer = Novel:
James Oliver Curwood
Screenplay:
Lindsley Parsons
starring = John Wayne
Noah Beery, Sr.
Noah Beery, Jr.
producer = Paul Malvern
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cinematography= Archie Stout
distributor = Lone Star Productions
released = 22 October 1934
runtime = 55 min.
country = USA
language = English
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"The Trail Beyond" is a 1934 movie in the western genre starring John Wayne, Noah Beery, Sr., and Noah Beery, Jr..

This film presents an extremely rare opportunity to see Wallace Beery's brother and nephew appear together in a movie. Noah Beery, Jr., who played "Rocky" in "The Rockford Files" forty years later, has an extremely large role as John Wayne's character's best friend and appears alongside Wayne in almost every scene, while the senior Beery enjoys only a few minutes of screen time despite his higher billing. Wayne was 27 years old when "The Trail Beyond" was shot, while Beery, Jr. was 21.

Stunning location backgrounds filmed around Mammoth Lakes, California, set this film firmly apart from most of the other Poverty Row westerns in which Wayne found himself trapped between masterpieces "The Big Trail" (1930) and "Stagecoach" (1939).

Cast

* John Wayne as Rod Drew
* Verna Hillie as Felice Newsome
* Noah Beery, Sr. as George Newsome
* Noah Beery, Jr. as Wabi
* Robert Frazer as Jules LaRocque
* Iris Lancaster as Marie LaFleur
* James A. Marcus as Felice's uncle
* Eddie Parker as Ryan, the Mountie
* Earl Dwire as Henchman Benoit

ee also

* John Wayne filmography (1926-1940)

External links

*imdb title|id=0025903|title=The Trail Beyond