Utah Trail (1938)
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Tex Ritter's final music Western for floundering company Grand National, The Utah Trail was yet another low-budget patch-up job with plenty of stock footage from earlier releases. Horace Murphy and Snub Pollard (who is credited as "Peewee Pollard" in the film's credits) once again… More Tex Ritter's final music Western for floundering company Grand National, The Utah Trail was yet another low-budget patch-up job with plenty of stock footage from earlier releases. Horace Murphy and Snub Pollard (who is credited as "Peewee Pollard" in the film's credits) once again lent dubious comedy relief, while Charles King took it on the chin for the umpteenth time. As opposed to Murphy, Pollard and King, Utah Trail proved the Western debut of Adele Pearce, a pert actress later known as Pamela Blake. Miss Blake summed up everyone's feelings when she years later told B-Western historian Boyd Magers: "It was terrible! I never saw it and never wanted to!" Ritter, who also supplied the story for The Utah Trail, played Tex Stewart, an agent for the Border States Railroad investigating sightings of a mysterious "ghost train." Posing as an outlaw, The Pecos Kid, Tex discovers that the mysterious train is part of a rustling operation headed by the well-named Hiram Slaughter (Karl Hackett) and his henchman Badger (King). At first, railroad heiress Sally Jeffers (Miss Pearce/Blake) is under the influence of Slaughter but she is soon enough convinced otherwise by Tex who, in between battling the Bad Guys, gets to sing Utah Trail by Bob Palmer and Give Me My Saddle and A Roamin' I'll Be by Frank Harford. Executive producer Edward F. Finney and director Al Herman filmed Utah Trail in a few days on an abandoned railroad siding bear Bakersfield, California, and at the movie ranches in Chatsworth. Finney and Ritter then enjoyed a more or less amicable parting of the ways with Grand National before relocating, lock, stock and barrel, at rival Monogram Pictures. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
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Cast
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Tex Ritter
as Tex Stewart
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Horace Murphy
as Ananias
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Adele Pearce
as Sally Jeffers
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Karl Hackett
as Hiram Slaughter
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Charles King
as Badger
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Edward Cassidy
as Sheriff Clayton
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Dave O'Brien
as Mason
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Bud Osborne
as Hank
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Lynton Brent
as Cheyenne
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Rudy Sooter
as Orchestra Leader
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Pamela Blake
as Sally Jeffers
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Harry "Snub" Pollard
as Pee Wee
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Horace B. Carpenter
as Bar patron
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George Morrell
as Bar patron
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James Sheridan
as Henchman
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Oscar Gahan
as Bar patron