Overland Trails Reviews

A fine if somewhat violent B-Western which actually anticipated the more adult oaters of the early '50s, Overland Trails is directed with verve by Lambert Hillyer, a veteran whose career dated back to the silent days of William S. Hart. Although no longer svelte, former football star Johnny Mack Brown still makes a convincing hero and old-timer Raymond Hatton remains one of the more versatile of sidekicks. The villains are appropriately despicable and the suicide of the heroine's father is quite unusual for what, for all intent and purposes, was yet another low-budget series Western. Said heroine is played by pretty Virginia Belmont, a former "Goldwyn Girl" and a fine little actress who should have gone on to bigger and better things, but was destined to spend her brief Hollywood career in Grade-B pictures.