Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303854403 Format: Black & White, NTSC ISBN: 6303854400 Label: United Home Manufacturer: United Home Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: United Home Release Date: October 04, 1995 Sales Rank: 51757 Studio: United Home Theatrical Release Date: May 01, 1939
Description: A frontier scout is hired by officials to stop outlaw Indian raids on pioneer wagon trains along the Oregon Trail.
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Rating: - Old-fashioned western serial is worthy of a look...or fifteen
Johnny Mack Brown plays an unusually dapper fur trapper hired to investigate a series of attacks preventing wagon trains from reaching the Oregon territories. He joins up with the most beleaguered wagon train in history, which spends several sequential episodes trying to get out of the same dusty town. Whenever the train starts moving, it falls under attack by Indians or stampeding cattle or some other stock footage, which digital technology makes even easier to spot.
Don't try to watch more than one or two chapters at a time, because this serial bears the marks of the form. Serials were a unique format completely beholden to the circumstances under which they were viewed. There was no guarantee that viewers attended the theater the previous week, so every installment contains a certain amount of redundant footage. Each chapter has opening credits, scrolling text describing the story thus far and ... Read More
Rating: - "The King of Serials & B-Westerns...VCI Entertainment ~ The Oregon Trail (1939)"
VCI Entertainment and Universal Pictures present..."The Oregon Trail" (1939) (Dolby digitally remastered), a 15 Chapter cliffhanger from an action packed Universal western serial era featuring an outstanding cast with Ford Beebe and Saul A.Goodkind at the helm...."The Oregon Trail" was the last of four serials that Johnny Mack Brown made for Universal Pictures in the 30's he moved back to full feature films and B-Westerns...story line has our hero Jeff Scott (Johnny Mack Brown) and his sidekick Deadwood Hawkins (Fuzzy Knight) working undercover to investigate missing wagon trains who never make it to Oregon....who is behind the Indian attacks and what eastern syndicate is involved with all the problems our early pioneers are dealing with...is Bull Bragg (Jack C. Smith) and his gang of cutthroats Breed (Charles Stevens), Daggett (Forrest Taylor), Dirk (Charles King) and Pete (Tom London) (what an outstanding lineup ... Read More
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