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The Telegraph Trail (1933) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1933 · 54 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Tenny Wright
- Starring
- John Wayne, Frank McHugh, Otis Harlan, Duke, Marceline Day, Clarence Geldart
The film follows the monumental effort to lay a transcontinental telegraph line from the East to the West, chronicling the severe hardships and frequent Indian attacks faced by the crews. Meanwhile, a ruthless businessman who has become a renegade incites an Indian uprising to sabotage the project and maintain his economic grip on the region.
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