BUILDING WESTERN AMERICA

Evening Star, Issue 20779, 29 April 1931, Page 2

BUILDING WESTERN AMERICA

• BIG TRAIL • IS TRIBUTE TO PIONEERS. No more ambitious picture has.ever been put on the screen than ‘ Tho Big Trail,’ which will open on Friday at the Princess Theatre. No picture has succeeded more completely in doing what it set out to do. It is a tribute to the men and women who built the American West. The directors' painstaking work has produced a record which will endure in the minds or those who soo the film. Not one of the characters fails to come up to the highest expectations. In this department ‘ The Big Trail ’ is remarkably well balanced. ’ o two principals give an extremely good performance, hut by no means do they overshadow the lessor parts. The story is a, simple one, in keeping with the sincerity ox the whole picture. Brock Coleman, plavocl admirably by John Aay tic has been all his life a trapper and wanderer in the unknown lands of the West. Ho is the respected friend of tho Indians. He attaches himself to <i colony of pilgrims, to guide them to tho new lands, partly hoca - ■ or ms ■nterost in Ruth Cameron and partly because he knows that the murderers of his friend are with the train. Ruth Cameron’s part is taken with great artistry bv Marguerite Churchill. El Bremlcl, Tully Marshall,, and David Rollins also figure prominently. Box plans are now- available at Iho Bristol.