Trailin' West - Original Trailer 1936

This Dick Foran "singing western" makes extensive use of stock footage from First National's Ken Maynard series of the silent era. Foran is cast as Northern officer Rod Colton, who goes undercover during the Civil War to flush out a gang of Confederate spies. It develops that the mercenary villains are planning to play one side against the other by fomenting an Indian uprising. Colton finds an unlikely but very attractive ally in the form of dance-hall hostess Lucy Blake (Paula Stone). Evidently Frank McGlynn Sr. was busy during shooting of Trailin' West, else why would the role of Abraham Lincoln be played by brawny Robert H. Barrat? Dick Foran - Lt. Rod Colton Paula Stone - Lucy Blake Addison Richards - Curley Thorne Robert H. Barrat - Abraham Lincoln Joseph Crehan - Col. Douglas Fred Lawrence - Lt. Dale Eddie Shubert - Happy Henry Otho - Hawk Stuart Holmes - Edwin H. Stanton Cliff Saum - Jim Milt Kibbee - Bandit Carlyle Moore, Jr. - Hotel Clerk Gene Alsace William "Wild Bill" Elliott - Jefferson Duane Bud Osborne Edwin Stanley Glenn Strange Jim Thorpe Tom Wilson