The Glory Trail

Name: The Glory Trail
Genre: Western
Released: 1936-09-15
Duration: 1 h 5 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Tom Keene, Joan Barclay, James Bush

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5.7/10

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Joan Barclay and Tom Keene in The Glory Trail (1936)

Western

It's just after the Civil War and Captain Morgan and his confederate soldiers are establishing a town on the Bozeman trail. Colonel Strong and his union men are at the nearby fort. Things ar... Read allIt's just after the Civil War and Captain Morgan and his confederate soldiers are establishing a town on the Bozeman trail. Colonel Strong and his union men are at the nearby fort. Things are peaceful until Riley has the Indians attack a union wagon train and leave a confederate ... Read allIt's just after the Civil War and Captain Morgan and his confederate soldiers are establishing a town on the Bozeman trail. Colonel Strong and his union men are at the nearby fort. Things are peaceful until Riley has the Indians attack a union wagon train and leave a confederate sword at the scene.

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This film was first telecast on New York City's pioneer television station W2XBS Sunday 10 March 1940. It is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946. Post WWII televiewers got their first documented look at it in New York City Saturday 24 May 1947 on WCBS (Channel 2) and in Los Angeles Tuesday 11 November 1947 on KTLA (Channel 5).

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7/10

First in Crescent Pictures' Series of Historical Action Pictures

Writer John Thomas Neville did his homework and was well acquainted with the history of Red Cloud's War, along the Bozeman Trail in 1866. His story and screenplay incorporate events and the names of both places and people involved in the fight near Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming, but much of the script focuses not on history, but on the romance of protagonist Tom Keene and the leading lady, Joan Barclay. Various melodramatic sub-themes, including the tragic deaths of two characters, are likewise in the foreground.

Whether producer E. B. Derr of Crescent Pictures commissioned Mr. Neville to write fictionalized accounts of occurrences in American history, or whether he bought the first script, liked it, and then decided to produce a whole series of eight historical romances starring Tom Keene is uncertain.

Mr. Keene had successfully headlined western features and had been the romantic lead in other types of pictures. The Crescent series takes a midway approach between the two. THE GLORY TRAIL, directed by Lynn Shores, is not a Saturday matinee western, although the story is set in the West and involves a struggle between Red Cloud and the Cavalry. It is, rather, a complicated tale of a Confederate officer - still attired in uniform after the War - who leads a group of his men to a new life along the Bozeman Trail, becoming romantically involved with the Cavalry commander's lovely daughter and trying to stop a massacre stirred up by a treacherous individual.

Tom Keene, Joan Barclay, and James Bush perform well with the material offered. Mr. Derr and Mr. Neville set out to do a different sort of series, and in this they succeeded, THE GLORY TRAIL being their first release.