THE GOLDEN TRAIL (1940) Tex Ritter, Slim Andrews & Inna Gest | Drama, Western | B&W

The Golden Trail is a 1940 American Western film directed by Albert Herman and starring Tex Ritter, Stanley Price and Gene Alsace.

SYNOPSIS
The Ceegareet gang controls Boom Town, murdering miners to seize their claims. Tex Roberts and Slim Hunkafeller strike a rich vein and become the gang's next targets. The gang frames Tex as the killer, leading Sheriff Bat Toles to jail him. The gang dynamites the jail to kill Tex, but he escapes and hides in a cave with Bill Rawls, another gang victim. Rawls initially thinks Tex is the gang leader but learns the truth and returns to Boom Town. They discover the real leader is saloon owner Prader. Tex rescues Rawls' daughter Chita and another entertainer, Patsy, and helps capture the gang.

CAST & CREW
Tex Ritter as Tex Roberts
Slim Andrews as Slim Hunkafeller
Inna Gest as Chita Rawls
Patsy Moran as Patsy
Gene Alsace as Sheriff Bat Toles
Stanley Price as Prader - aka Ceegareet
Warner Richmond as Henchman Chris
Eddie Dean as Henchman Bart
Forrest Taylor as Bill Rawls
Frank LaRue as Deputy
Bill Wells as Texas Bill - Mayor of Boomtown
Ernie Adams as Hank Rivers

Directed by: Albert Herman
Written by: Roland Lynch, Robert Emmett Tansey, Roger Merton
Produced by: Edward Finney
Cinematography: Marcel Le Picard
Edited by: Robert Golden
Music by: Frank Sanucci
Production Company: Edward F. Finney Productions
Distributed by: Monogram Pictures
Release Date: July 8, 1940
Running Time: 52 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English