Trail Street

Trail Street is a 1947 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys and George "Gabby" Hayes.

[2] Based on the novel Golden Horizons by William Corcoran, and a screenplay by Norman Houston and Gene Lewis, the film is about the legendary Bat Masterson who brings law and order to the town of Liberal, Kansas, and defends the local farmers against a murderous cattle baron.

[4] In his 1947 review for The New York Times, Bosley Crowther wrote that Trail Street was "no better nor worse than most of the rest” of Westerns about Bat Masterson.

[5] Crowther continued: It is just another pistol drama in which the good marshal, played by Randolph Scott, cleans out a nest of cowboy villains who are making life miserable on the Kansas farms.

Everything takes place on schedule, including a pious romance between a farm agent, Robert Ryan, and a local girl, Madge Meredith.

[5]In his review, Mike Grost wrote that although the film was no masterpiece, Trail Street contains "fresh visual thinking" and shows "graceful mise-en-scène".

[6] Grost continued: One shot shows hero Randolph Scott and friend walking down the side of a bustling Western street.