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Old Overland Trail (1953)

Rex Allen, Slim Pickens and Leonard Nimoy star in this what could almost be categorized as Really Bad B-western. There was apparently next to no money given to this project. Why make it look real? Film, for the most part, on a sound stage indoors and use generic stock footage and piece it all together to make a fun and enjoyable hour long movie. Uhh, didn't work. The story has Allen as a government investigator getting involved with a government contractor who's using indians and settlers essentially as slave labor to build a railroad. It's a decent enough plot but the filmmaking just fails.

With so many B-westerns,

ya win some, ya lose some . . .