Back Trail (1948)
.45 COLT COMBAT! Against ruthless payroll bandits!
57 min
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.
- Release date
- July 18, 1948
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Johnny Mack Brown as Johnny Mack
- Raymond Hatton as Casoose
- Mildred Coles as Helen Frazer
- Marshall Reed as Lacey
- James Horne Jr. as Terry Dugan
- 'Snub' Pollard as Goofy
- Ted Adams as Bob Frazer
- Pierce Lyden as Frank Gilmore
- George Holmes as Rocky
- Bob Woodward as Turk
Crew
- Christy Cabanne · Director
- J. Benton Cheney · Writer
- Barney A. Sarecky · Producer
- Harry Neumann · Cinematographer
- John C. Fuller · Editor