The Cariboo Trail (1950)

INFORMATION FROM IMDb

Plot Summary
Jim Redfern dreams of owning his own cattle ranch and along with his partners Mike Evans and Ling heads off on the Cariboo Trail into the interior of British Columbia. There's a gold rush on and along the way they're joined by old-timer Grizzly Winters, a prospector who hasn't had much luck of late. They soon come up against Frank Walsh whose men stampede their cattle. Evans is severely injured forcing Redfern to amputate his left arm. Evans hates him for that and will have nothing to do with him or his dream of the cattle ranch. Walsh owns the local town making it difficult for Redfern to get re-established. Things begin to go his way when he finds gold.
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Cast
Randolph Scott ... Jim Redfern
George 'Gabby' Hayes ... Grizzly
Bill Williams ... Mike Evans
Karin Booth ... Francie
Victor Jory ... Frank Walsh
Douglas Kennedy ... Murphy
Jim Davis ... Miller
Dale Robertson ... Will Gray
Mary Stuart ... Jane Winters
James Griffith ... Higgins
Lee Tung Foo ... Ling
Charles Anthony Hughes ... Dr. Rhodes (as Tony Hughes)
Mary Kent ... Mrs. Winters
Ray Hyke ... Jones
Jerome Root ... Jenkins (as Jerry Root)
Cliff Clark ... Assayer
Tom Monroe ... Bartender
Fred Libby ... Chief White Buffalo
Kansas Moehring ... Stage Driver (as 'Kansas' Moehring)
Dorothy Adams ... Nurse
Michael Barrett ... Hotel Clerk
and many more...

Directed
Edwin L. Marin ... (as Edwin L.Marin)

Writing Credits
Frank Gruber ... (screenplay)
John Rhodes Sturdy ... (story)

Produced
Nat Holt ... producer
Harry Howard ... associate producer

Music
Paul Sawtell

Cinematography
Fred Jackman Jr. ... director of photography

Trivia
Final feature film appearance of George 'Gabby' Hayes.

Re-release prints were struck in black-and-white, not in the original Cinecolor.

Goofs
Audio/visual unsynchronised
During the gunfight in town late in the movie, the first of Victor Jory's men who gets shot starts
falling before there is an audible gunshot. The other men are all shot after audible gunshots.

Continuity
During the cattle stampede by Walsh's henchmen against Redfern's encampment, the men in camp are asleep because it's night time, but when the stampede is over it's daylight.

Crew or equipment visible
Randolph Scott leaves Carson Creek with the citizens chasing him. He rides down a hill, falls, remounts, and while riding across a creek, on a bluff above the creek, someone in a light colored shirt is visible running from left to right. The posse is behind Scott riding back to town, and of the people he soon meets raising the cattle, none of them are wearing a light colored shirt.

Memorable Quotes

Filming Locations
Gunnison, Colorado, USA
Lake City, Colorado, USA
Corriganville, Ray Corrigan Ranch, Simi Valley, California, USA
Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA
Motion Picture Center Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (studio)
British Columbia, Canada
Republic Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

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The Cariboo Trail is a 1950 film directed by
Edwin L. Marin. It stars Randolph Scott and George 'Gabby' Hayes in his final film role.

User Review

entertaining, colorful but not "adult" Scott western
19 July 2012 | by alexandre michel liberman (tmwest) (S. Paulo, Brazil)
This film has many faults, and if Randolph Scott made many westerns that could be called "adult" this is certainly not one of them. You can't take it seriously but I enjoyed it. One must remember that this film was made in 1950, and color here is of great importance,considering most westerns of the forties and before were made in black and white. Randolph Scott had the ideal physique for a western hero, and his presence together with a nice scenery and a lot of action, the usual fistfight, and shootouts, cattle stampede, Indian attacks would please most of the spectators of the fifties and it sure pleases me, perhaps a nostalgic feeling. Gabby Hayes is always a welcome presence, great sidekick. Bill Williams has a good performance as Mike Evans, who loses his arm and blames it on Scott, Karen Booth as the saloon owner who falls for Scott, and a small part of a very young Dale Robertson as Will Gray.
If you are a nostalgic for old westerns like me you will enjoy it.