The Crooked Trail (1936) - Full Official Movie - Great Quality Film :)

The Crooked Trail (1936) - Full Official Movie - Great Quality Film :) The Crooked Trail is a 1936 American film directed by S. Roy Luby. After Jim Blake saves Harve Tarlton's life, they become partners in a gold mining claim. After a while Harve reverts to his outlaw way of life. Everyone but Jim seems to know that Harve is bad but Jim merely thinks he needs a chance to go straight. But Jim's wife Helen has a plan to expose Harve as the outlaw he is. A REVIEW The Crooked Trail was a western film starring Johnny Mack Brown that was an independent production for an outfit called Supreme Pictures. It would have to have been an independent film because the Code would never have allowed a film with a more than subtle gay subtext to have been done at a major studio where more scrutiny would have been exercised. I wonder what Brown and the rest of the cast realized about The Crooked Trail. Johnny Mack Brown finds Ted Adams and John Merton both unconscious and suffering dehydration on the badlands. He saves them both though they tell conflicting stories about who was the aggressor in a fight they had. Brown is a noted lawman from Texas who now just wants to seek a fortune in panning for gold and he takes Merton in as a partner. Everybody takes to Brown, especially Lucile Browne, but no one really likes Merton. In fact Merton unbeknownst to Brown is robbing the other prospectors. The script provides for a Greek chorus of commentators among the old time prospectors. Just to make ...