Back Trail
5.9
“.45 COLT COMBAT! Against ruthless payroll bandits!”
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.
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Johnny Mack Brown
Johnny Mack
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Christy Cabanne Director · J. Benton Cheney Screenplay
United States release July 18, 1948 · Produced in United States · Production Great Western Productions
Production
Monogram Pictures
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Great Western Productions
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United States
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Original language
English
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English
Release dates
United States · July 18, 1948
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