The Lone Trail

The Lone Trail
Directed by	Forrest Sheldon Harry S. Webb
Written by	Betty Burbridge Bennett Cohen
Based on	Skull and Crown by James Oliver Curwood
Produced by	Flora E. Douglas Harry S. Webb
Starring	Rex Lease Virginia Brown Faire Jack Mower
Cinematography	William Nobles
Edited by	Fred Bain
Production company	Metropolitan Pictures
Distributed by	Metropolitan Film Exchange
Release date	March 1, 1932 (1932-03-01)
Running time	61 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Lone Trail is a 1932 American pre-Code Western film directed by Forrest Sheldon and Harry S. Webb and starring Rex Lease, Virginia Brown Faire and Jack Mower. It was produced as a second feature on Poverty Row.[1] According to a modern source it partly used edited footage from the earlier serial The Sign of the Wolf, although no contemporary confirmation of this exists.[2] It has strong similarities to the plot of the 1935 film Skull and Crown which was based on an earlier story James Oliver Curwood.

Plot

Cast

• Rex Lease as Ranger Tom Lanning
• Virginia Brown Faire as Ruth Farnum
• Joe Bonomo as Jed
• Billy O'Brien as Bud O'Brien
• Jack Mower as The Tiger
• Robert Walker as Joe
• Harry Todd as John Farnum
• Josephine Hill as Tom's Sister
• Edmund Cobb as Fred

References

1. Pitts p. 404
2. https://catalog.afi.com/Film/6420-LONE-TRAIL?sid=e4462b50-18ee-4242-918e-791b9b0194af&sr=0.3211308&cp=1&pos=1

Bibliography

• Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each. McFarland & Company, 2005.

External links

• The Lone Trail at IMDb