The Big Trail

The Big Trail was a 1930 film starring John Wayne. Although the 23-year-old Wayne delivered a credible performance as wagon train scout Breck Coleman, the movie was a huge flop as it was released at the height of the Great Depression. It would take another nine years and Stagecoach to make Wayne a star. Legend has it that the director Raoul Walsh had co-star Tyrone Power, Sr. almost beaten to death for forcing himself on the leading lady, Marguerite Churchill. Power would die just a year later from a heart attack.

External links

• "Wide Film Cinematography:Some Comments on 70mm Camerawork From a Practical Cinematographer," Arthur Edeson, A.S.C., American Cinematographer - September, 1930