music title on the trail of the lonesome pine

McCoy feud that has two families losing members in cruel tit-for-tat revenge exchanges. What’s delightfully surprisingly about Trail is how engaging the film remains, in spite of being ostensibly a variation on the Hatfield vs. Selznick extravaganza, The Garden of Allah). Perhaps because of the novel’s recognition factor and its setting in a rural mountain town, Paramount figured Trail of the Lonesome Pine was a good choice for the first 3-strip Technicolor film to be shot on location, so the production became one of five 3-strip Technicolor productions released in 1936 (the others being The Coronation of King George VI, The Dancing Pirate, Ramona, and the David O. DeMille, and more interestingly in 1923, with Mary Miles Minter appearing in her second-last film before disappearing from the silver screen after her alleged involvement in the William Desmond Taylor murder mess.

John Fox Jr.’s novel was a favourite during the early years of cinema, and was filmed three times during the silent years: in 1914, in 1916 by Cecil B.

Music title on the trail of the lonesome pine