Desert Trail

The Desert Trail presented Wayne as a star performer in rodeos called John Scott. With his gambler friend Kansas Charlie (Eddy Chandler, dispensing the light relief) he is wrongly suspected of having committed a hold- up. Local feeling against them runs so high that the pair quit town in haste. They suspect two others (Paul Fix, Al Ferguson) of having framed them and follow the two men to Poker City. A small complication arises when Wayne takes a shine to a girl (Mary Kornman) who works in a local store and who is the sister of one of the suspects, but Wayne manages to clear his name and retain her affections. (John Wayne, Allen Eyles, 1979, p. 44)