The Lone Trail

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The Lone Trail
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Directed by Forrest Sheldon
Harry S. Webb
Written by Betty Burbridge
Bennett Cohen
Based onSkull and Crown by James Oliver Curwood
Produced byFlora E. Douglas
Harry S. Webb
Starring Rex Lease
Virginia Brown Faire
Jack Mower
Cinematography William Nobles
Edited by Fred Bain
Production
company
Metropolitan Pictures
Distributed byMetropolitan Film Exchange
Release date
  • March 1, 1932 (1932-03-01)
Running time
61 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Lone Trail is a 1932 American pre-Code Western film directed by Forrest Sheldon and Harry S. Webb and starring Rex Lease, Virginia Brown Faire and Jack Mower. It was produced as a second feature on Poverty Row. [1] According to a modern source it partly used edited footage from the earlier serial The Sign of the Wolf , although no contemporary confirmation of this exists. [2] It has strong similarities to the plot of the 1935 film Skull and Crown which was based on an earlier story James Oliver Curwood.

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