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Freighters of Destiny (1931)

Freighters of Destiny poster
Directed by
Fred Allen
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
57 min
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man takes a job driving a freight wagon through dangerous territory. He has to deal with outlaws and other threats on the trail.

old-fashionedstraightforwardmodestoutdoorsydatedlive-actionearly-talkieplodding

What happens

Freighters of Destiny is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film produced and directed by film editor Fred Allen, from a screenplay by Adele Buffington. Allen had started in the film industry as an editor in the early 1920s during the silent era. In the early 1930s, he was given the opportunity to direct. Freighters was his first film at the helm. The film stars Tom Keene, a well known actor of B-films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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