Description

The Trail Beyond is a 1934 Western (genre) film starring John Wayne, Noah Beery, Sr., and Noah Beery, Jr.. It was based on the novel The Wolf Hunters (novel) by James Oliver Curwood which was also adapted as a silent film The Wolf Hunters (1926 film) (1926) and a later sound film The Wolf Hunters (1949 film) (1949).
This film presents an extremely rare opportunity to see Wallace Beery’s brother and nephew appear together in a movie. Noah Beery, Jr., who played “Rocky” in The Rockford Files forty years later, has an extremely large role as John Wayne’s character’s best friend and appears alongside Wayne in almost every scene, while the senior Beery enjoys only a few minutes of screen time despite his higher billing. Wayne was 27 years old when The Trail Beyond was shot, while Beery, Jr. was 21.

Cast

• John Wayne as Rod Drew
• Verna Hillie as Felice Newsome
• Noah Beery, Sr. as George Newsome
• Noah Beery, Jr. as Wabi
• Robert Frazer as Jules LaRocque
• Iris Lancaster as Marie LaFleur
• James A. Marcus as Felice’s uncle
• Eddie Parker as Ryan, the Mountie
• Earl Dwire as Henchman Benoit