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Music, action, drama, and beauty aru well pictured in the stills, such as those shown here. At top. Vera Ralston performs for John Russell and saloon keeper Jim Davis to the obvious disapproval of holy roller Barton MacLane; left, Pat O'Brien uses dead Indian as shield in attack while Forrest Tucker blazes away in background; below, left, O'Brien removes arrow from Joan Leslie's arm as anxious husband Russell and Miss Ralston try to lend aid; bottom, the pair of feminine stars in lavish New Orleans restaurant.
JUBILEE TRAIL
Republic has cliosen (Iwen Bristow's novel of a heterogenous grou]) making their way from New ( )rleans to the \\ est Coast in the early Nineteenth Century. The ingredients of ])()pular historical novelism, ])eople with hiddeii pasts, clash of personalities, struggles of pioneers against greedy white men and fighting redmen. derelicts living down their pasts, romantic complications, and e\en the death of an unwed mother taking her baby with her over a cliff are some of the ingredients that go into "Jubilee Trail". I'ruce Manning's script has \ era Ralston as a saloon entertainer befriended by Eastern newlywed Joan Leslie, en route with husband John Russell to his home in California, unknowing that he has sired a child with an aristocratic Mexican girl. Meanwhile, his power-seeking brother. Ray Middleton, has arranged a marriage with the girl's ])arents, assuring him control over the Southern California territory. Stepping into the picture is Russell's partner, I-'orrest Tucker, who, with Miss Ralston and a host of assorted characters, succeeds in working the tangled web into a happv ending. Into the proceedings are worked fist and gun battles. Indian clashes, murders, comedy, four musical numl^ers and the triumph of right over evil. Throughout Miss Ralston's ample and well-arranged proportions in kaleidoscopic costumes are caught by the Trucolor cameras to wide-eyed effect, losejjh Inman Kane was associate producer and director for Herbert J. Vates.
FILM BULLETIN February 8. 1954 Page 21