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West of Carson City (1940)
West of Carson City
A judge leads a crusade against the illegitimate governing of a gold rush town by gamblers intent on cleaning out the prospectors. At the urging of some of the townsfolk, he does the cleaning out instead.
There's another ghost town featured in this western, but only briefly before gold is found and it becomes a thriving town with some lawlessness to boot, and here Harry Wood's crooked shenanigans take root. Que: Johnny Mack Brown who rides in looking for his ranch hands and ends up fighting and shooting and romancing Penny Moran. Pleasant action western with a smooth plot, nice songs and clean entertainment.
Ghost Town Law (1942)
Ghost Town Law
When two of their Marshal friends are killed, the Rough Riders are sent to investigate. They have to find the killers in a ghost town where the houses and an old mine are interconnected by secret passages and tunnels.
Ghost town, creepy house, creepy injun servant, eyes peering through the curtain, passageways and silhouette in the window - these things you find in Ghost Town law, an interesting western due to the atmosphere- there's a little sense of clarity to what's happening ( to be fair, that's down to the crackly audio and faded picture quality of the copy I had seen) but it gets better as it goes along. Has some good fights, rambunctious action and the real villain gets revealed. The set pieces - the ghost town and mansion is well done.
Cheyenne Roundup (1943)
Cheyenne Roundup
A gang of outlaws takes over El Dorado, a ghost town, just before gold is rediscovered there. With the boom comes easy money for Gils Brandon and his henchmen. Meanwhile, vigilantes, seeking to curb the lawlessness of the town, offers the job of Marshal to Steve Rawlins. On the day that Gil's fiancée, Ellen Randall, arrives in town, Gil is shot when he makes an attack on the new Marshal. Discovered in a dying condition by his twin brother, Buck Brandon, Gil regrets his outlaw past and asks Buck to make El Dorado a decent place. Steve learns of the relationship and enlists the aid of Buck in cleaning up the town.
Cheyenne Roundup is a fun western, a little farfetched with a twin angle but I actually liked that aspect, especially when we get to see Johnny Mack Brown as a bad guy, at least for the first half before his brother takes over as a good guy in the guise of his bad brother in order to tame the town, with the help of Tex Ritter. Yes it's fairly convoluted but all the fun for it. Then there's some good humour from Fuzzy knight who, in the beginning, is a storekeeper, sheriff and judge all rolled into one as the sole person in a ghost town, that's before the bad Johnny Mack brown and his pards take over, reinstating the ghost town into a thriving town. Quite plot driven than the usual shoot em up B oater and ends with a lively shootout and brawl.
Marshal of Gunsmoke (1944)
Breezy Tex Ritter western
Ward Bailey arrives as the new Marshal of lawless Gunsmoke, where Citizens of Gunsmoke are being intimidated by Lon Curtis (Harry Woods) and his gang who are preventing an election to vote on a township charter, and a corrupt defense lawyer makes the pursuit of justice very difficult. Complicating the matter that he's the marshal's brother.
Tex Ritter is the Marshal of Gunsmoke and predictably is here to clean up a town called, eh, Gunsmoke, and that's an aptly named town as there will be plenty of gunsmoke before his job is done. His job is complicated by the arrival of his lawyer brother who works for the villain (to be fair, he had hoodwinked the lawyer into it) but there's no taxing brother vs brother subplot - Russel Haydn as the brother soon gets on the right side. Not after a frame-up, nefarious schemes and an election where the bad guy could win by crooked means.
Marshal of Gunsmoke is a breezy, fun western with all the right ingredients- some nice songs sung by the charming Jennifer Holt, energetic gunplay, impressive stunt work like Ritter leaping from his horse on two escaping riders and a Stagecoach scene with Fuzzy Knight on top bellowing at the top of his lungs as the horse-less Stagecoach goes out of control. Nothing taxing for the brain with deep studies into the realm of the mind, just breezy western action for pleasant viewing.
City of Bad Men (1953)
City of Badmen
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight of 1897 draws to Carson City every outlaw of the territory, eager for the pickings. But Brett Stanton has bigger ideas! Like robbing the box office of a high profile prizefight.
City of Badmen is an unusual western, mainly due to its setting - a prizefight- as well as being a caper. It's a fairly intriguing western with enough conflict and some intelligent dialogue. A little talky at times and it takes a little time to get going, but it does draw you in, at least mildly. The best acting is from Dale Robertson who has a conscience and is conflicted over his criminal life - he clashes with his brother (Lloyd bridges) as well as Richard Boone, who, in no surprise, is the heavy. If you like unusual westerns with a unique setting and characterisation, then City of the Badmen is right up your creek.
A great deal of care has been taken to ensure authenticity in the settings of the period and details concerning the fight. The boxing style itself has changed so radically since 1897 that John Day and Gil Perkins, who are seen as Corbett and Fitzsimmons, trained industriously for their boxing scenes to create the authentic style. A veteran stuntman, Gil Perkins has staged some of the most exciting fights in screen history (John Wayne and Randolph Scott brawl in The Spoilers comes to mind)
Three Young Texans (1954)
Solid suspense western
A Texan (Jeffrey Hunter) robs a train in an effort to prevent his father ( who is blackmailed into doing so) from committing the crime. A young girl (Mitzi Gaynor) attempts to help him after learning about the theft. A cowboy friend (Keefe Brasselle) demands a share of the money, but Jeff wants to return the money to the railroad. Keefe joins up with the villains and Jeff goes after them to clear his and his father's name and also to try and save Keefe from the bad hombres (don't know why he's one stupid and irritating character with a whiny voice!)
Three Young Texans is quite an interesting and engaging western with good performances, location and good photography all round. The title makes it sound like a fluffy story with young leads, but it has a noir-like suspense due to a dilemma - how does Jeffrey Hunter prevent his father from robbing the railroad's payroll? Simple, rob it himself and then return it to the authorities, but it isn't as simple as his avaricious friend steals the hidden money, hence spiralling the drama and action into one compelling western. Sometimes it's good to have low expectations, which I had for this western, thinking it was fairly average stuff, as it's nice to be surprised by a solid film.
The Fighting Redhead (1949)
The Fighting Redhead
Red Ryder, Buckskin, the Duchess and Little Beaver go to the help of an old rancher who has been threatened by the gang of a crooked saloon keeper. They run into his revenge-seeking daughter who's quick on the draw.
Comparisons to the previous Red Ryders featuring Wild Bill Elliott and Rocky Allan Lane are inevitable and I do love those films but the Fighting Redhead featuring Jim Bannon isn't too bad - it still has the enjoyable elements of the Republic Red Ryders such as the villainous schemes, the engaging plot and Jim Bannon makes a decent Red Ryder, even though he isn't as good as the aforementioned actors. Still he has a natural charm.
Three Desperate Men (1951)
Three desperate men
When they learn that their brother Matt Denton (Ross Latimer) is awaiting trial in California, charged with train robbery, deputies Tom Denton (Preston Foster) and Fred Denton (Jim Davis) leave their home in Fort Grant, Texas and head west. They arrive in Tulare just in time to rescue Matt from being hanged, but a guard is killed during their escape. Ed Larkin (Rory Mallinson) who framed Matt, falsely accuses them of a long list of crimes. They return to Fort Grant so that Tom can see his sweetheart Laura Brook (Virginia Grey). They encounter outlaw Bill Devlin (William Haade) who persuades them to hold up a train which Laura unwittingly told them would carry a large payroll. Soon the whole territory is enraged at their deeds. They return to Fort Grant to hold up the two banks that are filled with huge sums of cattle money.
Three Desperate Men has a standard "good guys turn into outlaws by cruel circumstances" western plot which is given a lift by the presence of Preston Foster and Jim Davis, some lively shoot em up action and a fast pace. The finale features a real intense shootout- quite impressive. I think originally it was meant to be a Dalton film, but instead it was decided to have the desperate outlaws as fictional, which is a good idea.
The Great Jesse James Raid (1953)
Adequate western programmer
Famous outlaw and bank robber Jesse James is lured from his comfortable retirement in St. Joseph, Missouri, to commit one more robbery to retrieve gold from an abandoned mine in Colorado, but the affair will go wrong...
The Great Jesse James Raid isn't a bad western, it's an adequate time passer, at least once you pass the first dull ten minutes. Once the motley gang is formed, shootouts beckon and they enter the mine things pick up. Some of the acting is good such Tom Neal who looks like he could kill a rattler just by glancing at it and Willard Parker does well as a conflicted Jesse James. The dialogue can be bland at times, the pace a little laborious, but it has enough good moments to keep you watching. Maybe it would've been better if it didn't feature Jesse James and a longer running time to flesh out the plot, especially in the last fifteen minutes, to make it less slapdash.
The Younger Brothers (1949)
The Younger Brothers
An outlaw gang's hopes of a pardon are threatened when they're framed for crimes they didn't commit.
Promised their freedom if they keep out of trouble; paroled bank robbers Cole (Morris); Jim (Bruce Bennett) and Bob Younger (James Brown) join kid brother Johnny (Hutton) in Cedar Creek; Minnesota; unaware that their troubles have already begun. Set up by Daniel Ryckman (Fred Clark); an ex-Pinkerton cop who claims they cost him his job; Johnny is falsely accused of murder; while sultry bandit Kate Shepherd (Paige) robs a bank and makes Cole her fall guy.
The Younger Brothers travels a well worn trail in the "outlaw" western genre - and here the brothers are trying to keep on the straight and narrow, but this being a western with a modicum of chases and gunsmoke, for them that's going to be hard to achieve- especially with a vengeful ex-Pinkerton man and Janis Paige - a lady bandit - trying to scupper their chances to change. These two are the most interesting characters and what drives this rather routine yet efficiently made film. However, it's fuse doesn't always burns bright, it lacks a little punch, the colour tone is too dark, but it's entertaining with some good acting and a sufficiently constructed plot.
Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
Badmen of Missouri
The Younger brothers, Cole, Bob and Jim, return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Following the success of Jesse James (1939) comes another western based on the exploits on a real life outlaws - the Younger brothers - and it's not as epic or on the same budget scale, but Badmen of Missouri, in b-western fashion, is fast, action-packed with some great stunt work such as the one involving a Stagecoach and it has also a healthy dose of humour, especially from a character called Pettibone. It's much lighter than what the subject matter would warrant but it's great fun and has a busy plot. You get good villainy in Victor Jory who plays a scheming -what else?- land grabber and his criminal activity is backed up by Howard Da Silva as his thug/sheriff.
The Daltons Ride Again (1945)
The Daltons Ride Again
The notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave, they learn of a friend whose land is about to be seized by a greedy land company. Before they can help, the man is killed by a company assassin. The brothers do manage to rescue his widow and head for the hills. There, they decide to revert back to outlaw life. Meanwhile, a newspaper publisher's daughter falls for one of the brothers.
Lon Chaney Jr. Switches from his wolf man films for a change and stars as a Dalton in a b-western chronicling the fictional exploits of the Dalton where they are seen helping a late rancher's wife - it's formulaic, but an efficiently made film with some good chases and shootouts, a fluid and energetic plot and some romance. Liked the twist in regards to who the main culprit is - surprised me.
The Desperado (1954)
The Desperado
Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett (Wayne Morris) offers that sage wisdom to fellow fugitive Tom Cameron (James Lydon); who's on the run from the "Bluebellies;" Texas State Police officers who wield a brutal iron fist of enforcement in the early 1870s; But quick-draw; hard-bitten Garrett soon decides not to take his own advice after young Cameron heads home to surrender - and instead gets framed for a revenge murder by a jealous rival for the affections of his girl (Beverly Garland)
The Desperado is quite an engaging western, if a little slow in places. The subject matter is dark and there's a certain edge lingering - it's definitely different from other Wayne Morris westerns and his persona isn't' light and cheerful - as usual - but he's philosophical and much more serious. There's some good shootouts, you get a double serving of Lee Van Cleef and Beverley Garland gets the pulse racing.
Fury at Showdown (1957)
Fury at Showdown
After serving a year for a killing in self-defense, gunfighter Brock Mitchell tries to help his younger brother save his ranch but a crooked lawyer has other ideas.
John Derek stars as a gunslinger just released from jail and a crooked lawyer whose brother had died in a gunfight when facing a showdown with Derek plots revenge by goading the easily riled Derek into a gunfight with his gun thug (Laramie's John Smith). Fury at showdown is a tightly-conceived stark western similar in vein to the Brass legend ( also directed by Gert Oswald) in terms of its starkness and its emphasis on character depth and tension. Not much action, but there's a killer fist fight between Derek and Smith. You got to see it to believe it.
Sometimes the tension can fluctuate and the pace is slow; overall, though, it's a decent western with good performances- but Derek steals the acting honours as the young man who is trying to restrain his anger and not turn to violence. The camera work, the town and characterisation is good. The finale was quite tense.
The Parson and the Outlaw (1957)
Odd western
Billy the Kid tries to live in peace under a new name in a frontier town, but he is soon approached by a preacher who asks for his help in freeing the town from the ruthless Colonel Morgan and his gunman Jack Slade.
What if Billy the kid faked his death, thanks to Pat Garrett? What if he tries to settle down as a rancher? What if he lays off carrying a gun? Such ideas is not bad - it's a reimagining of what would happen if he tried to settle down and change his life but it wouldn't be a western if things did pan out for him. It's an odd western with odd characters and equally odd music (annoying banjo strumming, mainly off key) , but there's some interesting elements such as the religious overtones, the dialogue and an odd atmosphere. It's sort of watchable, however there's a certain sluggishness and lifelessness. It's just the oddness that keeps you oddly watching on. If you are an odd western aficionado then you would probably want to check it out.
Last of the Desperados (1955)
Last of the Desperadoes
After Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's gang plan
to get Garrett to settle the score. After two innocent men are shot down,
Garrett resigns and leaves town, believing this act will save lives. He
settles down in Tascosa, New Mexico, under an alias, and meets Sarita
McGuire who hires him as a bartender in her saloon. She falls in love with
Garrett and tells him she was once married to Billy the Kid. Garrett's
former deputy, John Poe discovers Garrett working in the saloon, and
they decide to go back to Lincoln and face Billy's gang.
A little lethargic and routine in places, however The Last of the Desperadoes is not a bad western which features the historical character Pat the Garrett - the film starts with Garrett shooting Billy the kid in a darkened room, which gives him a notorious reputation and puts Billy the Kid's trail pardners on his tail. It's so bad that Garrett has to move to another town, shave his moustache off, change his name, become a storekeeper, but, as we soon learn, that is not enough and the old gang of Billy the Kid are flinging lead his way. There's some fine acting, maybe a little stiff in places, but good enough and the shootouts keep things interesting. The story idea is quite good.
Apache Trail (1942)
Apache Trail
A man with a shady past managing a stagecoach way station is reunited with his outlaw brother, whom he is convinced is up to no good. They are forced to put aside their differences to protect the town when a force of Apaches goes on the warpath, seeking retribution on a white man who deceived them.
A fairly dependable and enjoyable B-western about a pair of estranged brothers (William Lundigan and Lloyd Nolan) who are thrown together by an Apache uprising. Donna Reed provides the love interest, while Chill Wills supplies the philosophising, and there's an array of interesting characters - it was remade as Apache War Smoke, but Apache Trail is much better, more tighter and engaging with a sharp focus on the characters. The running time, however, is too short for more fleshing out the characters and having more tension. Lloyd Nolan takes the acting honours as a slimy criminal with an eye on the Stagecoach payroll, but his lingo and look seems to come out of a 1930's speakeasy. All he needed to do was flip a coin and say "Curtains."
Badlands of Dakota (1941)
Badlands of Dakota
Set in the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, the story finds brothers Jim and Bob Holliday (Stack and Broderick Crawford) fighting it out over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson (Ann Rutherford). While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok (Richard Dix) does his best to help Jim Holliday neutralise the local criminal element.
"Badlands of Dakota" is an entertaining and engaging western, which mixes the presence of mythical figures from the Wild West, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and General Custer, with comico-dramatic situations. It's an atypical western, oscillating between humor, (burlesque comedy) and dramatization - there's a great cast, from Broderick Crawford and the excellent Richard Dix, and the set pieces and the depiction of Deadwood is great. There's a strong sense of colour and drama as well as some fine action with shootouts, chases ( the Stagecoach sequence with the horses gobe was impressive) and an energetic Sioux attack on Deadwood.
Renegades (1946)
Renegades
Hannah Brockway, daughter of the leading citizen of Prairie Dog, prosperous insurance man Nathan Brockway, is engaged to be married to Dr. Sam Martin, but she meets and falls in love with Ben Dembrow, the youngest son of outlaw leader Kirk Dembrow. Ben, unwilling to lead the life of his father and two brothers, Frank and Cash, has taken a new name, and he and Hannah are married.
But the suspicions of the townspeople hound him and he is tried for a crime he did not commit. His father and brothers rescue him from the courtroom at gunpoint, and the disillusioned Ben joins his family, taking Hannah with him. Months of fleeing from the law, and the approaching birth of a child impels Hannah to send for Martin, who has never stopped loving her. Martin takes her back to her family home and the baby is born. But Ben kidnaps the child in an effort to make Hannah rejoin him, and Martin and Ben soon face a shoot-out against each other.
Renegades is a well made Western directed by the underrated George Sherman, and William Snyder's eye catching Technicolor cinematography is glorious to look at. The acting is fine; Willard Parker is sincere as the doctor, Evelyn Keyes adds some glamour, Larry Parks is ok though a more charismatic lead would've been better, but see Edgar Buchanan in a rare heel role as head of the sociopathic Dembrow family is a scene stealer. It's not a typical western in a sense that the emphasis is more on characters and drama and I liked how the last hour switched from a light-heartedness (accordions playing, dancing, the community love the town's own Dr Kildare who is engaged to a red headed beauty) to a more adult story with a few twists and turns. It's a bit of a slow burner, though, but some fine action and good characterisation keeps things interesting. It's actually a good western with a nice story.
Overland Pacific (1954)
Overland Pacific
Ross Granger is an railroad agent, going undercover as a telegrapher, looking into a series of raids by the Comanches on railroad construction near the town of Oaktown. He quickly discovers that the raids are sponsored by Del Stewart, a local businessman, and his associate Broden. Their goal is to force the railroad to run through land that they own.
Overland Pacific is a decent western with some fine fisticuffs, shoot em up action featuring Comanches vs railroaders, dry quips, friendship going sour and political machinations, however I found Jock Mahoney a little too passive when it came to investigating and not too determined. His friendship with William Bishop is explored more - speaking of which, Bishop steals the scene as the charming heel whose greed makes him murderous. Adele Jergens plays the saloon gal who still loves him, despite setting his cap for Peggy Castle. Predictably Castle falls for Mahoney - especially when she learns that Bishop was involved in her father's murder. Not a bad railroad western to settle down to enjoy. The finale is a cracker with attacking Comanches and dynamite. Good action.
The Rawhide Trail (1958)
The Rawhide Trail
Jess Brady and Rupe Pardee are in jail in Gunsight, Texas, blamed for leading a wagon train into a Comanche ambush, and about to be hanged. They protest their innocence and claim that the Indians want to kill them also. The Comanches attack the jail in an effort to capture the prisoners, but are driven off the soldiers of the garrison led by the Captain.
Expecting another attack, the Captain and a small detail of men move the prisoners out of town in a wagon, but they are under constant surveillance by the Comanches. The detail arrives at a way station the same time as a stage coach carrying Marsha Collins, and her fiancée, Farley Durand, a government supply officer. All are trapped in the station which is under constant attack by the Indians. In the escape battle, it is revealed that Durand was responsible for the attack on the wagon train, and not Brady and Pardee.
You don't usually see injuns attacking a town- ghost town yes, but not a fully fledged town, but of course the town's population gets whittled down and you get the usual survivors trying to stay alive from the Comanches - there's the usual tropes and familiar characterisations, but I quite enjoyed it (probably would've enjoyed it more with a better print and audio sound) as it was quite adequate in its execution and it's not boring. Maybe a little bit too talky at times.
Rex Reason, who bears a slight resemblance to Stewart Granger and has a similar booming voice, heads a good cast and does a fine job. Nancy Gates sizzles as an uppity girl engaged to a scoundrel who is trying to make a Buck by selling guns to the Comanches. The finale is quite tense with the Comanches crawling through the rocks towards Reason and Gates and the bullet through the ammo letting off a small rock slide. A modestly enjoyable western, though probably only for the genre addicts.
Badlands of Montana (1957)
Badlands of Montana
Wanting to follow in his late father's footsteps, eager reformer Steve Brewster runs for mayor of a small Montana town but is forced to flee and join a gang of notorious outlaws after he's provoked into killing two corrupt officials in self-defense. Gang leader Hammer takes Steve in, and Steve falls for his daughter, Susan, but his loyalties are divided when he's appointed marshal of his hometown.
And just when I thought that Badlands of Montana, a 1957 B-western, would be just average I got a pleasant surprise and I found it interesting, especially how the town folk of Cascade treats the hero - a candidate for Mayorship - with malice and sheer hatred ( even the whipping he gets is intense and the man who commanded the whipping takes a thrill out of it), and the plot is quite involving and there's a sense of clarity to the story. It's well-acted by all, but Emile Meyer steals the scene as a thoughtful outlaw leader. A big contrast to the hothead gang member played by Keith Larsen. As for Rex Reason, he does great as a leading man and has matinee like credentials -pity he didn't make it big. Marcia Dean is sultry as the villainess. Beverley Garland emoted well. Liked how the plot twisted away from "innocent man turns into an outlaw" story and into a "lawman" story.
The Marksman (1953)
The Marksman
Mike Martin becomes a deputy United States marshal in early-day Texas because of his almost unbelievable marksmanship. (That he has a rifle with a special scope doesn't hurt anything.) He hates the thought that he has been hired as a killer instead of a lawman but his superior, Marshal Bob Scott, sets him straight. For years a master gang of rustlers has raided government grazing lands and Lieutenant-Governor Watson orders Scott to get them. Scott, disguised as a prospector, is killed when he spots the outlaws deep in the Sangre de Christo range. Head of the rustlers is rancher Champ Wylie and his gang includes his foreman Santee and a crack gunman, Kincaid. Visiting Wylie is his novelist niece Jane Warren. When Scott is not heard from, Mike, also posing as a prospector, goes to find him, and meets Jane. He eventually solves the rustling mystery but not without some lead exchange...
There's a fair amount of body count due to Wayne Morris' keen marksmanship in this western called, eh, the Marksman and, as far as being an efficiently and agreeable programmer that passes time decently, it hits the mark. I found it quite entertaining; an interesting idea of a deputy stopping bad guys with a rifle - even if the rifle is too early for the timeline here - and a brisk and adequate plot being strong factors. Plus Elena Verdugo is a cutie and I liked her inquisitive and innocent character. She plays a writer from the East visiting her uncle, Frank Ferguson, who happens to be the head of a cattle rustling outfit. For undemanding western fanatics this would do just fine.
Two Guns and a Badge (1954)
Two guns and a Badge
Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim is appointed deputy sheriff of a wide-open cattle town called Outpost. Playing along, our hero gets down to business -- He is successful until the sheriff discovers he is not the killer and offers him a chance to leave. But he stays- Beverley Garland is an incentive to stay!- and by the time his true identity is revealed most of the bad guys end up on boot hill.
A rather serviceable western that wavers between mediocrity and interesting - the latter because of the mistaken identity storyline and some tension in regards to the truth behind the deputy's real identity might put him in danger. There's some fine shootouts, good dialogue, and it's watchable, however I felt it could've been better with more running time.
Vigilantes of Boomtown (1947)
Weak entry
The ranch of Red Ryder (Allan Lane) and his aunt, The Duchess (Martha Wentworth), is being used as the training site for "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (George Turner) for his upcoming fight in Carson City, Nevada for the heavyweight championship against Bob Fitzsimmons (John Dehner). Molly McVey (Peggy Stewart), the daughter of a U. S. Senator, crusading against prize-fighting in Nevada, complicates matters somewhat when she conceives the bright idea of having Corbett kidnapped, thus causing the cancellation of the fight. The two men (George Chesebro and George Lloyd) she hires to do the kidnapping also add to the complications by kidnapping Ryder instead of Corbett. Meanwhile, a gang of crooks, led by McKean (Roy Barcroft), descend on the town intent on looting the town and also making off with the fight proceeds.
I love the Red Ryder series, but this one was confusing and not very engaging - some parts were unusual, in regards to being a mix of being a shoot em up and modern boxing film. However, the acting is fine and so is Peggy Stewart who is quite comic, though I didn't quite understand why she was against a pugilist contest. Nice shoot em up at the end, but nothing remarkable.