The Marshall of Trail City

TV Movie
1950
25m

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A peaceable man becomes marshal of his town at the end of a cattle trail and faces the problems of law enforcement with trail drovers and gunhands.A peaceable man becomes marshal of his town at the end of a cattle trail and faces the problems of law enforcement with trail drovers and gunhands.A peaceable man becomes marshal of his town at the end of a cattle trail and faces the problems of law enforcement with trail drovers and gunhands.

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5.6/10

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Bill Elliott

Wild Bill Elliott
(as 'Wild' Bill Elliott)

Dub Taylor

Cannonball
(as Dub 'Cannonball' Taylor)

Valley Keene

Valley Keene

Timmy Tate

Timmy

Bill Kennedy

Tom Hubbard

Bert Kennedy

Mildred Huntley

Woman

Bob Clark

Judge

Richard Alexander

Bald-Headed Townsman
(uncredited)

Stephen Chase

Mr. Phillips
(uncredited)

Director
- Richard C. Kahn
Writer
- Harold Shumate
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Trivia
TV debut of Dub Taylor.

Goofs
Wild Bill confronts three men who are harassing a mother and her baby in the street. One of them draws a gun on him and the position goes from pointed at Will Bill to 45 degrees up and back to straight at him in three consecutive camera shots.

Quotes
[first lines]
Wild Bill Elliott: [narrating] This is my story, but in a larger sense, it's the story of the West and of Trail City, towards which I was riding that day in June. My name is Elliott - to which some of my friends have added "Wild Bill".

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2/10

Must Have Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

The episode's premise surrounds rancher Bill Elliott reluctantly being pressed into service as Marshall of crime infested Trail City. Along the way he befriends an orphaned boy (Timmy Tate), puts a spoiled, feisty cowgirl (Valley Keene) in her place and has to deal with a childhood friend who has fallen on the wrong side of the law.

This was presumably a pilot for a television series that was never sold. After watching this stinker it's easy to understand why. What isn't clear is how Bill Elliott and Dub Taylor got mixed up in this mess in the first place. Maybe they saw the writing on the wall for the end of the B-Western and were testing the waters for a TV series of their own, much like Hoppy, Gene and Roy. However unlike Hoppy, Gene and Roy the acting and production values are woefully bad. So much so, I doubt that they could have even floated this by a network or even sold it into syndication. Curiosity aside, this is one to pass on.