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Desperate Trails

Genre: Western
Countries: USA,
Release Date: October 01, 1939
Year: 1939
Runtime:1h
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Following 1939's "The Phantom Stage", the last of 12 series westerns made at Universal by Trem Carr and Paul Malvern starring Bob Baker, Universal kicked off a new series of six starring their new series-sign Johnny Mack Brown (who had already starred in three Universal serials with one more to go.) Baker was now odd-man-out at the studio as his contract had been with Trem Carr, and Carr and associate Malvern had moved over to Monogram to begin a series of four "Tailspin Tommy" features. Universal, usually late to the party anyway, added Baker and comedian Fuzzy Knight to the first-six Brown films to form a trio angle along the lines of Republic's highly successful "Three Mesquiteers" series, but there were no continuing roles in these films---they even killed Baker off in the 2nd film---and Baker's 2nd-lead soon went to 3rd-lead (behind Knight) and then to "gone" after the sixth film. When Bob Baker was next seen in a film at Universal, it was as the uncredited bus driver in Abbott ...

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Johnny Mack Brown     , Bob Baker     , Fuzzy Knight     , Frances Robinson     , Russell Simpson     , Clarence Wilson     , Charles Stevens     , Ralph Dunn     , Horace Murphy     , Fern Emmett     , Ed Cassidy     , Anita Camargo     , Bill Cody Jr.