The Trail Beyond - 1934 [Kosjeyr]

The Trail Beyond is a 1934 Western film starring John Wayne, Noah Beery, Sr., and Noah Beery, Jr.. It was based on the novel The Wolf Hunters by James Oliver Curwood which was also adapted as a silent film The Wolf Hunters (1926) and a later sound film The Wolf Hunters (1949).

This film presents an extremely rare opportunity to see Wallace Beery's brother and nephew appear together in a movie. Noah Beery, Jr., who played "Rocky" in The Rockford Files forty years later, has an extremely large role as John Wayne's character's best friend and appears alongside Wayne in almost every scene, while the senior Beery enjoys only a few minutes of screen time despite his higher billing. Wayne was 27 years old when The Trail Beyond was shot, while Beery, Jr. was 21.

Stunning location backgrounds filmed around Mammoth Lakes, California set this film firmly apart from most of the other Poverty Row westerns shot during the decade in which Wayne found himself trapped between his screen masterpieces The Big Trail (1930) and Stagecoach (1939).

Rod Drew hunts for a missing girl and finds himself in a fight over a goldmine as well.

Rod Drew has been sent to find a missing miner and his daughter. He is joined by old friend Wabi whom he has to rescue from card cheats that framed him for murder. Later they find a skeleton and a map to a mine. When they put the map into a safe, a LaRocque henchman sees them. LaRocque wants the map and captures the Mountie sent to get Wabi. His man then dressed as the Mountie captures Rod and Wabi.

John Wayne as Rod Drew
Verna Hillie as Felice Newsome
Noah Beery, Sr. as George Newsome
Noah Beery, Jr. as Wabi
Robert Frazer as Jules LaRocque
Iris Lancaster as Marie LaFleur
James A. Marcus as Felice's uncle
Eddie Parker as Ryan, the Mountie
Earl Dwire as Henchman Benoit