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77% Critic Match
The Old Chisholm Trail
“Renegade Ranchers! Rustlers!... A Stampede of Roaring Action... as Johnny and Tex crack down on ruthless range racketeers!”
7.7 / 10• 1942• 1h 1m•NR• English
ActionMusicWestern
Storyline
Dusty Gardner, and other Texas ranchers, are driving a herd of cattle to Abilene, Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. Desperate need of water takes them to the Turner ranch, where Belle Turner demands exorbitant prices for the water. Dusty learns that Belle is also trying to oust Mary Lee and Montana Smith from the trading post Mary operates. The sheriff sides with Belle following a fight between the two women. Belle knows there is artesian springs under the land the trading post occupies and intends to get the property by any means.
Cast & Crew
Johnny Mack Brown
Dusty Gardner
Lead
Tex Ritter
Montana Smith
Fuzzy Knight
Alvin Pendergast aka Polario
Jennifer Holt
Mary Lee
Mady Correll
Belle Turner
Earle Hodgins
Chief Hopping Crow
Roy Barcroft
Ed Phillips
Edmund Cobb
Joe Rankin
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Elmer Clifton's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Old Chisholm Trail is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
