The Old Chisholm Trail

1942

Action / Drama / Music / Western

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 95%
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 135 135

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Elmer Clifton Photo
Elmer Clifton

Top cast

Jennifer Holt Photo
Jennifer Holt as Mary Lee
Scoop Martin Photo
Scoop Martin as Rancher
Johnny Mack Brown Photo
Johnny Mack Brown as Dusty Gardner
Jimmy Wakely Trio Photo
Jimmy Wakely Trio as Musicians
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by glofau

Good Songs, So-So Film

The corn is higher than "a elephant's eye" in this obscure Western trifle. Tex Ritter and Jimmy Wakely provide dandy singing of some excellent songs, elevating what is otherwise a superficial (and sometimes downright tedious) story about the battle for water rights along the old Chisholm Trail.Johnny Mack Brown and his gang of cowboys are trying to get their thirsty cattle to market, but the only water left on the old Chisholm Trail is controlled by a flashing-eyed, raven-haired beauty played by Mady Correll who demands an extortionate fee from the cowboys in order to cross her land to water their cattle. When the cowboys, hopelessly broke and righteously indignant at this transgression of the Code of the Old West, refuse to pay, this feisty vixen spends the rest of the film double-crossing everyone, rustling cattle, sending her bully boys into several ridiculously harmless gunfights with the good guys, and otherwise making herself utterly repulsive to all right-thinking He-Men... when she isn't vainly tempting Our Hero with her Fatal Beauty, that is.Unfortunately, I'm making this sound like much more fun than it actually is. The film treads the boundaries of campy parody without actually crossing that line... but it comes mighty close.One of the highlights of the film is a cat-fight between our villain and the blonde-haired proprietress of the local saloon (played by the lovely Jennifer Holt), which is tremendous fun and over far too quickly. One of this movie's charms is that it doesn't take itself too seriously, which makes it acceptable to watch... although I found the comic relief provided by Fuzzy Knight as a cowboy-turned-sideshow-magician and Earle Hodgins as an outraged cigar-store-like Indian who wants his money back to be tiresome.The film is at its best when the cowboys are singing their excellent songs and the plot disappears, but, to give the film its due, the script mostly makes logical sense (however far-fetched the motivations might be) even if you don't really care about anything that happens. The only cliché missing from this film is Jennifer Holt being the saloon girl with the heart of gold... she's too pure for that. Otherwise, this is pretty formulaic drivel with the exception of Mady Correll as the villain rather than some black-hat-wearing hombre.If you happen to catch this film, there are several moments of campy goodness to amuse you. The songs are good (especially The Old Chisholm Trail, the opening number of the film). But don't go out of your way.
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Reviewed by MartinHafer 3 / 10

Belle is an annoying and ridiculous character, though she's not the only one in this film.

In "The Old Chisholm Trail", Universal Pictures decided to combine the star power of Johnny Mack Brown with Tex Ritter. Plus, while Brown isn't a singing cowboy, Ritter was and the film featured quite a bit of singing for a Johnny Mack Brown flick...too much for my taste. In addition, the film features some of the most one-dimensional and annoying characters I can recall in a B-western, such as Belle as well as an American Indian which will make most folks a bit ill watching him!

Dusty (Brown) is on a cattle drive on the Chisholm Trail. However, their trip comes to an abrupt halt when they run out of water and a local nutty woman, Belle, tries to charge them exorbitant rates to water the animals...so much so they cannot possibly afford it. But Dusty and the gang don't realize that this feisty lady isn't above a lot of dirty tricks...and the local sheriff seems unwilling to intervene.

Belle is the sort of tough, liberated cowgirl that would make feminists today cringe. She isn't so much a liberated western woman but a walking stereotype of an annoying lady boss...the sort that old westerns enjoyed making fun of because, as they all knew back in the day, ladies should really just be pretty and nice.

Overall, a really dumb film that doesn't age well. Plus, Johnny Mack Brown was a terrific cowboy star...but here he just seems overshadowed by all this silliness.

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