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Trailin' West (UK title: On Secret Service) is a 1936 American Western film directed by Noel M. Smith and written by Anthony Coldeway and starring Dick Foran, Paula Stone, and Wild Bill Elliott.
With Dick Foran, Smoke, Paula Stone, Bill Elliott. Sent by President Lincoln to prevent an outlaw band from hampering the war effort, secret agent Red Colton is ambushed and his identity papers stolen, setting him up to be accused by the local army commander of being a traitor.
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- Western
- Noel M. Smith
- 1936-09-05
Trailin' West - (Original Trailer) Singing secret agent Dick Foran tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request while Trailin' West (1936).
- Noel Smith, Drew Eberson, Harry Seymour
- Dick Foran
Trailin' West (1936) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Trailin' West. A Union officer (Dick Foran) spies for President Lincoln as a singing cowboy.
- Western
- Dick Foran, Paula Stone, Bill Elliott
- Noel M. Smith
Abraham Lincoln (Robert Barrat) seconds Lt. Foran to Pinkerton’s (Edwin Stanley) secret service in order to find out who’s behind the efforts to rile up the Native Americans out west and steal gold shipments.
Trailin' West casts Dick Foran as a Union officer in the west on detached duty as a spy to ferret out a nest of Confederate sympathizers. It's a tried and true plot premise used by Warner Brothers on a bigger scale.
