Movie: Trail to Laredo

Top 6 Billed Cast

Charles Starrett
Charles Starrett

Steve Ellison aka The Durango Kid

Jim Bannon
Jim Bannon

Dan Parks

Virginia Maxey
Virginia Maxey

Classy

Tommy Ivo
Tommy Ivo

Ronnie Parks

Hugh Prosser
Hugh Prosser

Fenton

Smiley Burnette
Smiley Burnette

Smiley Burnette

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    Filmed at the Providencia Ranch (today's Forrest Lawn in Burbank, CA), this typical "Durango Kid" Western featured the Cass County Boys performing "Go West Young Lady" by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin, in addition to series regular Smiley Burnette singing his own "It's My Turn" and "The Yodeler. This time, the Durango Kid (Charles Starrett) is chasing down a gang of outlaws shipping stolen gold in crates marked "ring bolts," ably assisted by Smiley, a treasury agent working undercover as a house painter. Virginia Maxey supplies female interest and little Tommy Ivo, in one of his six appearances in the Durango Kid series, also gets in the way of the action.

  • Release Date

    1948-08-11

  • Average

    5

  • Rating:

    2.5 starts
  • Tagline

    HOT with a gun...TOPS with a tune!

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    English

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