(From left) Gene Alsace, Bob Steele and Hoot Gibson are cleaning up the "Outlaw Trail"
in this 1948 Monogram picture, filmed in the Western town at the Monogram movie ranch
in Placerita Canyon. In the ranch and town were purchased by Gene Autry and renamed "Melody Ranch."
Released April 29, 1944, "Outlaw Trail" was a 53-minute, black-and-white
Western directed by Robert Emmett Tansey and written by Alan James
and Frances Kavanaugh. The cast included Gibson, Steele, Chief Thundercloud, Alsace,
Jennifer Holt, Cy Kendall, George Eldredge, Warner P. Richmond, Charles King,
Bud Osborne, Jim Thorpe, John Bridges, Hal Price, Charles Murray Jr., Frank Ellis,
Al Ferguson and Tex Palmer.
According to the Internet Movie Database,
"Carl Beldon [Eldredge] has disappeared and the Trail Blazers have been sent to investigate.
Arriving in town, they find that 'Honest John' [Kendall] controls everything. He even prints his own money.
He also has a gang and they set out to finish off the heroes."
Read more about the Monogram (Melody) ranch here.
