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Trail to Laredo
“HOT with a gun...TOPS with a tune!”
6.0 / 10• 1948• 54m•NR• English
Western
Storyline
Filmed at the Providencia Ranch (today's Forrest Lawn in Burbank, CA), this typical "Durango Kid" Western featured the Cass County Boys performing "Go West Young Lady" by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin, in addition to series regular Smiley Burnette singing his own "It's My Turn" and "The Yodeler. This time, the Durango Kid (Charles Starrett) is chasing down a gang of outlaws shipping stolen gold in crates marked "ring bolts," ably assisted by Smiley, a treasury agent working undercover as a house painter. Virginia Maxey supplies female interest and little Tommy Ivo, in one of his six appearances in the Durango Kid series, also gets in the way of the action.
Cast & Crew
Charles Starrett
Steve Ellison aka The Durango Kid
Lead
Jim Bannon
Dan Parks
VM
Virginia Maxey
Classy
Tommy Ivo
Ronnie Parks
Hugh Prosser
Fenton
Smiley Burnette
Smiley Burnette
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Ray Nazarro's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Trail to Laredo is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
