The Oregon Trail (1939 serial)
The Oregon Trail is a 1939 Universal movie serial starring Johnny Mack Brown.
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| Directed by | Ford Beebe Saul A. Goodkind |
| Produced by | Henry MacRae |
| Written by | George H. Plympton Basil Dickey Edmond Kelso W.W. Watson |
| Starring | Johnny Mack Brown Louise Stanley Fuzzy Knight Bill Cody, Jr. Edward LeSaint James Blaine Charles Stevens Jack C. Smith |
| Cinematography | Jerome Ash William A. Sickner |
| Edited by | Joseph Gluck Louis Sackin Alvin Todd |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 15 chapters (320 min) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
Cast
- Johnny Mack Brown as Jeff Scott, in the last of four serials Brown made for Universal.
- Louise Stanley as Margaret Mason
- Fuzzy Knight as Deadwood Hawkins, Scott's sidekick
- Bill Cody, Jr. as Jimmie Clark
- Edward LeSaint as John Mason
- James Blaine as Sam Morgan, villain
- Charles Stevens as "Breed"
- Jack C. Smith as Bull Bragg, Sam Morgan's main henchman
- Roy Barcroft as Colonel Custer
- Charles Murphy as Tompkins
- Colin Kenny as Slade, a henchman
- Forrest Taylor as Daggett, a henchman
- Jim Toney as Idaho Ike
Production
Stunts
- Yakima Canutt (archive footage)
- Cliff Lyons
- Tom Steele
Chapter titles
- The Renegade's Revenge
- The Flaming Forest
- The Brink of Disaster
- Thundering Doom
- The Stampede
- Indian Vengeance
- Trail of Treachery
- Redskin Revenge
- The Avalanche of Doom
- The Plunge of Peril
- Trapped in the Flames
- The Baited Trap
- Crashing Timbers
- Death in the Night
- Trail's End
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References
- Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 224. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
External links
| Preceded by Buck Rogers (1939) |
Universal Serial The Oregon Trail (1939) |
Succeeded by The Phantom Creeps (1939) |
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