by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Hoot Gibson goes through his customary paces in Clearing the Trail. Upon learning that his dad has been murdered and their ranch has been appropriated by crooks, Gibson takes a job as the ranch's cook in order to set things right. Never packing a gun (if he needs a weapon, he borrows one) the old Hoot manages to rout the baddies. He also wins the hand of ingenue Dorothy Gulliver. Clearing the Trail was one of the last silent Universal westerns; the company would drop its all-western series briefly in the early talkie era, then return to the wild frontier around 1931.
characteristics
- Kill
- Investigation
- Home
- Gunslinger
- Gunman
- Murder
- Return
- Ranch
- Outlaw [Western]
- Good-guy
- Friend
- Combat
- Battle [war]
- Bandit
- Cook
