The Lonely Trail (1936)

After the American Civil War, a Texas-born man who has fought for the North returns home. He finds the place being ruled by a corrupt and murderous capetbagger General. He enlists in his army with the intent of getting inside information on his moves. When the General notices that several of his targets start to flee before his troops' arrival, he develops a (correct) suspicion that his new recruit is an informant.

Low-budget Western which is short on length and on thrills, and routine in every aspect. There is, however, according to an IMDB commenter, an intriguing similarity in plot with Gone with the Wind. You can read his review on this link. You can read it in extenso below, in case they delete it for some reason:

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6/10

Before Margaret Mitchell began pounding out . . .

oscaralbert 11 September 2016

Warning: Spoilers

. . . that Racist Revisionist Endless Melodramatic Exercise in Hate Speech known as GONE WITH THE WIND (on the shelves of most every American Urban High School Library, while THE Great American Novel--THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN--is Universally banned by the self-proclaimed Know-Nothings!), she was "inspired" (more accurately, Dispired) by this John Wayne flick, THE LONELY TRAIL. Wayne plays "John Ashley," to whom Ms. Mitchell pays homage with her similarly mealy-mouthed "Ashley Wilkes" character. TRAIL covers the entire War to Defeat Lazy Southerners' Racist Evil in about 12 seconds (beating GWTW by roughly an hour and a half--which most viewers will find to be a definite improvement!). Ann Rutherford plays the model for Ms. Mitchell's "Scarlett O'Hara," called "Virginia" here. To pad out GWTW into an Umpteen-hour soap opera, Mr. Mitchell splits Ashley and Virginia into a couple characters each. Otherwise, most of the familiar GWTW scenes are here, such as when Clark Gable convinces the Union Commander that Ashley is NOT the Grand Wizard of the KKK. By cutting out most of Ms. Mitchell's unseemly histrionics and cursing, TRAIL clocks in at a shade under 56 minutes, which is more than enough of a not-so-good thing.

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I can't vouch for any of this information, as I have not read Gone with the Wind, and it has been some time since I watched its film adaptation.

Rating: 33