Back Trail

Jul 18, 1948

0h 57m

★ 0.0

.45 COLT COMBAT! Against ruthless payroll bandits!

Overview

Back Trail is one of the livelier entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series. Brown rides into a small town where he becomes embroiled in a blackmail scheme. The town's banker (Ted Adams), a pillar of respectability, once served a jail term. Outlaw leader Pierce Lyden threatens to reveal Adams' secret if the banker doesn't let him know in advance when the gold shipments are going through. Adams tearfully tells Brown the whole story, whereupon Johnny rides shotgun on the next shipment himself. Back Trail was one of the last films directed by workhorse Christy Cabanne, whose career stretched all the way back to the D.W. Griffith days.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Monogram Pictures

Great Western Productions

Back Trail Trailers

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Cast

Johnny Mack

Johnny Mack Brown

Cahoose

Raymond Hatton

Helen Frazer

Mildred Coles

Henchman Lacey

Marshall Reed

Terry Dugan (as James Horne)

James Horne Jr.

Goofy (as Snub Pollard)

Harry 'Snub' Pollard

Bob Frazer

Ted Adams

Frank Gilmore

Pierce Lyden

Henchman Rocky

George Holmes

Henchman Turk

Bob Woodward

Henchman Peco

Carol Henry

Sheriff (uncredited)

William Bailey

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