The Old Chisholm Trail

The Old Chisholm Trail (1942)

Renegade Ranchers! Rustlers!... A Stampede of Roaring Action... as Johnny and Tex crack down on ruthless range racketeers!

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.

Date of release
1942-12-11
TMDB
7.7 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 1m
Genres
Action, Music, Western
Director
Elmer Clifton

Casting

Interesting facts

The Old Chisholm Trail is a 1942 American Western film written and directed by Elmer Clifton. The film stars Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt, Mady Correll and Earle Hodgins. The film was released on December 11, 1942, by Universal Pictures.

Production

'The Old Chisholm Trail' was the third in a series of three Universal films starring Johnny Mack Brown and Tex Ritter, following Deep in the Heart of Texas and Little Joe, the Wrangler. All three films were released by Universal in 1942 and also starred Jennifer Holt, Fuzzy Knight and the Jimmy Wakely Trio. The Old Chisholm Trail was the only one of the three movies where Tex Ritter sang two songs.

"The highlight of the film" wrote one reviewer, "was the catfight between the villain and the blond proprietor of the local saloon."

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