The Oregon Trail (1939 serial)

The Oregon Trail (1939 serial)

Infobox Film
name = The Oregon Trail


image_size =
caption =
director = Ford Beebe
Saul A. Goodkind
producer = Henry MacRae
writer = George H. Plympton
Basil Dickey
Edmond Kelso
W.W. Watson
narrator =
starring = Johnny Mack Brown
Louise Stanley
Fuzzy Knight
Bill Cody Jr.
Edward LeSaint
James Blaine
Charles Stevens
Jack C. Smith
music =
cinematography = Jerome Ash
William A. Sickner
editing = Joseph Gluck
Louis Sackin
Alvin Todd
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = Flagicon|USA 1 May 1939
runtime = 15 chapters (320 min)
country = USA
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:36605
imdb_id = 0031764

"The Oregon Trail" (1939) is a Universal movie serial.

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

tunts

*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 EndSource: [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 224
chapter = Filmography
]

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0031764|title=The Oregon Trail
*amg title|id=1:36605|title=The Oregon Trail

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title=Universal Serial
before=Buck Rogers (1939)
years=The Oregon Trail (1939)
after=The Phantom Creeps (1939)


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