The Burning Trail

{{short description|1925 film}} {{Use American English|date=September 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Burning Trail | image = Theburningtrail-publicitynewspaper1925.jpg | caption = Newspaper publicity for the film | director = Arthur Rosson | producer = | writer = Isadore Bernstein | based_on = {{basedon|''Sundown Slim''|Henry H. Knibbs}} | starring = {{ubl|William Desmond|Albert J. Smith|Mary McIvor}} | cinematography = Gilbert Warrenton | studio = Universal Pictures | distributor = Universal Pictures | released = {{Film date|1925|05|10}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent<br />English intertitles }} '''''The Burning Trail''''' is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring William Desmond, Albert J. Smith, and Mary McIvor.<ref name="AFI">{{cite book |date=1997 |editor-last=Munden |editor-first=Kenneth W. |title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1 |publisher=University of California Press |orig-date=1971 |page=99 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlLbRAPOgP0C |isbn=0-520-20969-9 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BurningTrail1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Burning Trail''] at silentera.com</ref> After accidentally killing a man in a fight, a boxer heads West.

==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref>{{Citation |title=New Pictures: ''The Burning Trail'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=21 |issue=5 |pages=53 |date=25 April 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald21unse/page/n584/mode/1up |access-date=23 January 2022}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> Smiling Bill wanders west to forget that he killed a man in the boxing ring, and goes into the desert. Meanwhile, he has incurred the enmity of Texas, a bad man. Texas gets a job at the Corliss ranch. Texas attempts to show the younger Corliss boy how to get stock across a neighboring sheepman's land. However, the boy loves the sheepman's daughter and does not want to stir up strife with him. A fight breaks out just as Bill arrives at the Corliss ranch, and he goes for the sheriff. Before the sheriff arrives, the elder Corliss is killed. Bill rescues the sheepman's daughter and another young woman.

==Cast== {{Cast listing| * William Desmond as Smiling Bill Flannigan * Albert J. Smith as Texas * Mary McIvor as Nell Loring * Jim Corey as Black Loring * Jack Dougherty as John Corliss * Edmund Cobb as Tommy Corliss * Dolores Rousse as Esther Ramsey * Harry Tenbrook as Reginald Cholmondeley * Janet Gaynor as Extra }}

==Preservation== With no holdings located in archives, ''The Burning Trail'' is considered a lost film.<ref>{{cite web|date=|others=|title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Burning Trail|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4077/default.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220513211402/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4077/default.html|archive-date=2022-05-13|access-date=2026-03-29|website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0015654}} {{Arthur Rosson}}

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