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Feb 17, 2008 · None of the 70mm elements of either The Big Trail or Happy Days have survived. The only reason that we are able to see the widescreen version of The Big Trail is that Fox had made a 35mm Cinemascope print of it before the 70mm nitrate deteriorated in the 60s.
Finding a VHS or DVD widescreen print of "The Big Trail" is difficult. It's been shown on tv and in special movie houses that way on occasion. Generally, though, one gets a standard screen version, which fails to capture the eye-popping 70 mm. aspect ratio of the original.
- (4.5K)
- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Raoul Walsh, Louis R. Loeffler
- 1930-11-01
The Big Trail is a 1930 American pre-Code Western early widescreen film shot on location across the American West starring 23-year-old John Wayne in his first leading role and directed by Raoul Walsh.
John Wayne’s starring film debut, THE BIG TRAIL, was filmed in 70mm Grandeur, a radical new widescreen process in 1930. THE BIG TRAIL was an epic western that few people ever saw in widescreen.
- 122 min
- 13.6K
- A Word on Westerns
The Big Trail was perhaps the biggest of them all – a gargantuan pioneer Western shot in an early widescreen process appropriately titled grandeur. Thanks to a recent DVD release we now get to see the widescreen version alongside the fullscreen that was shot simultaneously.
In working on such a picture as "The Big Trail," 70 millimeter is a tremendously important aid for the epic sweep of the picture demands that it be painted against a great canvas.
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The defining word in the title of Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail is big. The 1930 drama built around a wagon train traveling the Oregon Trail from the banks of the Mississippi to the lush forests of the Pacific Northwest was the first outdoor epic of the young sound era of cinema.
