The Big Trail 1930

Critics score:
100 / 100

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Mordaunt Hall, New York Times: Read more

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Richard Brody, New Yorker: Integrating the settlers' passionate mortal conflicts into the landscape, Walsh turns the theatrical limitations of early sound technique to an advantage, composing vast, static tableaux with the mighty breadth and noble pace of epic stanzas. Read more

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