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Thread #153248   Message #3587981
Posted By: JohnInKansas
31-Dec-13 - 08:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: great old forgotten forgotten movies
Subject: RE: BS: great old forgotten forgotten movies
An "oldie" found on DVD in a sale bin recently, that I'd never seen before but picked up out of curiosity:

THE BIG TRAIL, Directed by Raoll Walsh, ©1930, and billed as "One of the First Great Epic Westerns," was interesting because of the cover picture on the box of John Wayne at what looks like about age 19 or 20(?). Few of us ever saw anything he did before 10 or 15 years later when he had "matured" significantly. If anything, his acting was better than later when he leaned on his "rep" and didn't have to work as hard.

Not really anything to rave about, but much better than I expected for that time. Well worth my $3.95 even if I don't ever watch it again.

John