Trail Street (1947)

Set in a small Kansas town where the cattlemen are driving the farmers out by violence and intimidation. But when the new U.S. Marshal Bat Masterson (Randolph Scott) arrives in town, they've met their match. Based on the novel GOLDEN HORIZONS by William Corcoran and directed by Ray Enright (THE SPOILERS). A routine pulp western with predictable situations and characters. It's the kind of movie where when you meet the good hearted "bad" girl, you know she'll get bumped off by the movie's end for trying to help the good guys. It's quite watchable but its lack of inventiveness or style renders it forgettable. There's also the irritating Gabby Hayes providing the comic relief except that he's not funny, just annoying! Most unusual is that there's no romantic interest for the film's hero (Scott). Still, 1940s audiences liked it well enough for the film to turn a modest profit. With Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, Steve Brodie and Madge Meredith.