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Trail to Laredo
Trail to Laredo

Trail to Laredo

HOT with a gun...TOPS with a tune!

Genres

Western

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Filmed at the Providencia Ranch (today's Forrest Lawn in Burbank, CA), this typical "Durango Kid" Western featured the Cass County Boys performing "Go West Young Lady" by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin, in addition to series regular Smiley Burnette singing his own "It's My Turn" and "The Yodeler. This time, the Durango Kid (Charles Starrett) is chasing down a gang of outlaws shipping stolen gold in crates marked "ring bolts," ably assisted by Smiley, a treasury agent working undercover as a house painter. Virginia Maxey supplies female interest and little Tommy Ivo, in one of his six appearances in the Durango Kid series, also gets in the way of the action.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

54 mins

Rating

5/10

Release Date

11 August 1948

Country

United States of America

Cast

Charles Starrett

Charles Starrett

Steve Ellison aka The Durango Kid

Jim Bannon

Jim Bannon

Dan Parks

Virginia Maxey

Virginia Maxey

Classy

Tommy Ivo

Tommy Ivo

Ronnie Parks

Hugh Prosser

Hugh Prosser

Fenton

Smiley Burnette

Smiley Burnette

Smiley Burnette

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