I'd check "contains spoilers", but this is such a standard story of the western ilk that there's really nothing to spoil -- guy breaks wild horse, gives up job to get horse, loses another job for spending too much time on the horse, gets injured and loses horse, meets girl but can't decide between girl and horse...you get the idea.
The action reminded me of The Roy Rogers Show and all the Hopalong Cassidy and other cowboy movies I watched on Saturday morning television as a kid, i.e., tackling rider off a moving horse, etc.
Star Cameron Mitchell looks like he could be the son of Thomas Mitchell, of "Gone With the Wind" and scads of other movies, but there's apparently no relation.
Judging by plot descriptions, there is also no apparent relation between this and the movie, "Gallant Bess" (which I haven't seen) made two years earlier, suggesting that this may have been made to re-employ Gallant Bess, "the wonder horse," and capitalize on her good name, i.e., strike while the horse is hot.
Sidekick Fuzzy Knight, who made nearly 200 movies, plays the Gabby Hayes / Pat Brady / etc. role here, even providing some musical breaks with a couple song fragments.
Lovely Audrey Long effectively portrays the girl, the doctor's daughter for whom the hero falls (reluctantly of course, since here the horse is paramount). Though not overly endowed like a Jayne Mansfield or a Joi Lansing, she makes an attractive sweater girl, the sweet kind you'd want to marry, even if you're a roamin' cowboy.
This 71 minute movie was "squeezed" into a two hour time slot this afternoon on the i channel (formerly PAX), which means there were about five minutes of commercials for every seven minutes of movie. Shot in Cinecolor, as shown here the colors were supersaturated, not washed out or faded like some old movies. But at this saturation level, one can but wish that they'd been toned down a bit to look more natural.
The action reminded me of The Roy Rogers Show and all the Hopalong Cassidy and other cowboy movies I watched on Saturday morning television as a kid, i.e., tackling rider off a moving horse, etc.
Star Cameron Mitchell looks like he could be the son of Thomas Mitchell, of "Gone With the Wind" and scads of other movies, but there's apparently no relation.
Judging by plot descriptions, there is also no apparent relation between this and the movie, "Gallant Bess" (which I haven't seen) made two years earlier, suggesting that this may have been made to re-employ Gallant Bess, "the wonder horse," and capitalize on her good name, i.e., strike while the horse is hot.
Sidekick Fuzzy Knight, who made nearly 200 movies, plays the Gabby Hayes / Pat Brady / etc. role here, even providing some musical breaks with a couple song fragments.
Lovely Audrey Long effectively portrays the girl, the doctor's daughter for whom the hero falls (reluctantly of course, since here the horse is paramount). Though not overly endowed like a Jayne Mansfield or a Joi Lansing, she makes an attractive sweater girl, the sweet kind you'd want to marry, even if you're a roamin' cowboy.
This 71 minute movie was "squeezed" into a two hour time slot this afternoon on the i channel (formerly PAX), which means there were about five minutes of commercials for every seven minutes of movie. Shot in Cinecolor, as shown here the colors were supersaturated, not washed out or faded like some old movies. But at this saturation level, one can but wish that they'd been toned down a bit to look more natural.