Rock Island Trail

1950

Action / Adventure / Drama / Western

3
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 277 277

based on novel or book sabotage railroad

Plot summary

A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

Director

Joseph Kane Photo
Joseph Kane

Top cast

Forrest Tucker Photo
Forrest Tucker as Reed Loomis
John Roy Photo
John Roy as Board Member
Marshall Reed Photo
Marshall Reed as Stagecoach Passenger
Pierre Watkin Photo
Pierre Watkin as Major
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828.14 MB
968*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
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1.5 GB
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English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by HotToastyRag 6 / 10

Beautiful costumes

Rock Island Trail takes audiences through the journey of the advent of the railroad through the Illinois territory. In the decades before the Civil War, when cowboys and Indians still battled, and stagecoach passengers were still scared of "new train cars", Forrest Tucker is a railroad man with a vision. There's a pretty exciting scene towards the beginning where a stagecoach and a train race; it's obvious to us who will win, but back in the day, people actually took bets on it!Costumer Adele Palmer clad her leading actress Adele Mara in countless gorgeous gowns. In every scene but one, she dons a new outfit with ornate material, great detail, and jaw-dropping style. This movie is worth watching just for the fashion eye candy! There was also a strong blue theme present in the Technicolor landscape, an interesting choice. I'm not sure if Palmer, director Joseph Kane, or art director Frank Arrigo were responsible, but it certainly made an impression. Amidst the brown dirt and golden rolling hill landscape, the cornflower blue really showed the influence of progress and civilization.The romance started off being cute, but it grew almost upsetting. Forrest and Adele had a spunky banter together, and it only took one scene for him to steal her away from her fiancé Bruce Cabot and make a lifelong enemy of him. But once they fell in love, Forrest flatly refused to marry her. He insisted that because she had money and he didn't, she could boss him around in the marriage; he wanted it the other way around. So, he planned on keeping her hanging until he made his fortune. She would always smile sweetly at him and say, "I'll wait," but in that day and age (or any for that matter), it was insulting to take her for granted and steal away years of her youth with an empty promise. She kept waiting and waiting and waiting! Someone else with more respect for her and less pride in his pocketbook could have swept her off her feet and made an honest woman out of her.In another scene, Forrest gets so angry that his workforce imbibes on a barrel of whiskey after a long day's work, he pours alcohol on a man's back and lights it on fire. Is he really supposed to be a good guy? Granted, Bruce was no Prince Charming either, but this definitely wasn't a Randolph Scott type of western. If you don't mind having the hero being a bit of an antihero, you can check it out. For me, the costumes were far and away the highlight. A close second was an adorable cameo by character actor Jeff Corey, playing a tall, lanky small-town Illinois lawyer with a top hat. . .
Reviewed by coltras35 7 / 10

Enjoyable "period piece" western

Rock Island Trail is centered on the building of a railroad bridge over the Mississippi River.Forrest Tucker (as Reed Loomis) is the head honcho of the outfit in charge of building the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River between Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa in 1856. He must battle rival paddle wheel steamer and stagecoach lines to break their monopoly on transport.An expansion storyline told with gusto, humour and the usual fictitious fun stuff interspersed throughout, which is conflicts in the form of shootouts, fistfights, ship ramming into the bridge setting it on fire, an Indian attack at the end and a mop fight (no joke!). It's lighthearted entertaining fare with Forest Tucker playing a hero for a change, and he does really well. Pity he didn't make more as a lead. I also liked the snappy dialogue and the song.
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