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6/10
Welcome to the feud that isn't a feud!
JohnHowardReid14 November 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Tom Tyler (Tom Wade of the Protective Association/Jack Granger, outlaw), Harlene Wood (Sheila Granger, the outlaw's sister), Lafe McKee (John Granger, the outlaw's dad), Milburn Morante (Jerry McLane, Tom's deputy), Roger Williams (Lance Holcomb), Jim Corey, Dick Alexander, Colin Chase (Lance's brothers), Vane Calvert (Ma Holcomb), Bob Hill (Chief Watson), Ray Henderson, Francis Walker (deputies), Steve Clark (robbery victim), Wally West, Oscar Gahan (barflies), Bud Pope (henchman), Johnny Luther (fiddle player), Rudy Sooter (bass player).

Director: BOB HILL. Screenplay: Basil Dickey. Photography: Bill Hyer. Film editor: Holbrook N. Todd. Art director: Fred Preble. Stunts: Francis Walker, Wally West. Production manager: Ed W. Rote. Sound recording: Hans Weeren. Producer: Sam Katzman.

Not copyright by Sam Katzman's Victory Pictures Corporation. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 1 March 1937. 56 minutes.

SYNOPSIS: No "feud" really. Nor "trail" either. Just an avaricious neighbor out to rob a nice old man and his lithesome daughter of their ranch.

COMMENT: This entry provides an opportunity for our Tom to impersonate an outlaw and to stave off the welcome attentions of the man's sister. Tom handles these dramatic and romantic episodes reasonably well, though he's obviously more at home in the hard riding and fighting sequences. He's supported here by Milburn Morante (of all people) who has a main role as a talkative (and even singing—dubbed, of course) sidekick.

However, the most impressive performance comes from Vane Calvert who gives a really stinging account of a vicious mother of all outlaws.

By Sam Katzman's dirt cheap standards, production values are not bad. Bob Hill is one of the better directors in this league.
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3/10
One glorious exception
bkoganbing25 November 2016
Tom Tyler who plays a dual role is both a member of the Protective Association and an outlaw who is part of a gang he's tracking. The bad Tyler wants to quit the outlaw business and go back to helping his family in a feud they're having with the neighbors.

Unfortunately he's killed before he can do that and when the good Tyler goes to bring the family the news he meets dad while he's being ambushed. Not wanting to give things away, Tyler plays along and in the process the reasons for the feud and why the other family wants the late Tyler's family off the property are revealed.

The Feud Of The Trail is from a bottom barrel poverty row studio called Victory Pictures and it shows. This was done on a dental floss budget and the acting with one glorious exception is from hunger.

The exception being Vane Calvert playing a Ma Barker type head of the bad family with a bunch of really bottom feeding and not too bright sons. But I don't think she's worth seeing this routine western for.
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10/10
Tyler vs. the Ma Barker of Coyote Pass
hines-20002 December 2020
Many interesting characters and character actors in this one. Vaudeville and slapstick sidekick Milburn Morante really sets the stage with one of his many tall tales. Tom Tyler and Morante shoot an outlaw after a botched hold up. Tyler takes on the identity of dying Jack Granger confessing to having assisted in such a machination. Songwriter and radio personality Harley Wood adds some beautiful scenery as Lafe McKee's daughter. Veteran of two world wars and many careers Roger Williams and the talented Richard Alexander are part of the Holcomb clan aiming to steal the gold. They are led by Vane Calvert who played Ma Holcomb true to form as a Ma Barker type leading her outlaw sons to the feud against the Grangers.
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