Western · United States of America · 1948 · 58m

Overland Trails

Director

Cast

Johnny Mack Brown as Johnny Murdock Raymond Hatton as Dusty Hanover Virginia Belmont as Marcia Brandon Bill Kennedy as Carter Morgan Virginia Carroll as Mary Cramer Mike Ragan as Rex Hillman - Henchman (as Holly Bane)

Crew

Adele Buffington — Screenplay

Tagline

GOLDTOWN GUNFIGHTERS! Battling the outlaw curse that haunted the west's richest gold mines!

Synopsis

Johnny Mack Brown stars in this above-average B-Western from Monogram, penned under the pseudonym of Jess Bowers by veteran genre specialist Adele Buffington. Mack Brown plays Johnny Murdoch, a drifter arriving in Gold Flats in search of his prospector father. From old-timer Dusty Hanover (Raymond Hatton), Johnny learns that Old Man Murdoch was murdered for his claim by Rex Hillman (Holly Bane), a hireling of Carter Morgan (Bill Kennedy).

Mood & Themes

wanted poster wagon train

Key Collaborators

Lambert Hillyer Director Adele Buffington Screenplay

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