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The term"B-movie" is now generally used to refer to any film made on a low budget and with reduced production value, but originally, it referred specifically to the cheap second films that were included in double features. They were like the B-side of a record. One of the key early genres for B-movies was Westerns, which were relatively easy to cobble together in a short span of time and with limited resources.
The movie feels like a police procedural in a Western setting, and it pulls off this fusion fairly well. Sure, the modest budget makes itself evident at times, and some of the supporting actors are atrocious , but it's decent for a 1930s movie. It's also very quick at just 53 minutes long, more like a TV episode than a feature. The main reason to watch it is McCoy, who was a major cowboy star of the era. Here, he's a quintessential Western hero; honest and incorruptible.
7 'Sagebrush Trail' Directed by Armand Schaefer Close Sagebrush Trail was one of John Wayne's first starring roles, part of a string of movies he helmed in the early 1930s. Here, he plays John Brant, an innocent man wrongfully accused of murder who escapes prison and joins a gang of outlaws. While hiding among criminals, Brant works to clear his name and track down the real killer. At the same time, he tries to sneakily undermine the gang's crimes from within.
The movie was made on a very low budget, but punches above its weight. It boasts plenty of musical numbers, along with physical comedy from Lynne Roberts as Hollywood talent scout Sue Warner. The best part of it, however, is found in the behind-the-scenes segments, which unfold on a film studio. Although stylized and over-the-top, they are a fun glimpse into what a studio back lot would have been like in the mid-1940s.
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