Charles Starrett (Steve Reynolds/The Durango Kid), Smiley Burnette (himself), Helen Mowery (Dixie King), Emmett Lynn (Cimarron Dobbs), Frank LaRue (Roberts, the banker), George Chesebro (Rankin), Jock Mahoney (Waco), Ernie Adams (printer), Maudie Prickett (barber), Zon Murray (Slade), Jim Diehl (Blaze), Frank Ellis (Frank), Herman Hack (henchman), Robert Filmer (John Munro), Russell Meeker (bartender), Blackie Whiteford, George Plues, Ray Jones (barflies), Kit Guard, Victor Cox, Foxy Callahan, Jack Evans (townsmen), Hank Newman and the Georgia Crackers (themselves).
Director: DERWIN ABRAHAMS. Original screenplay: Ed Earl Repp. Photography: Philip Tannura. Film editor: Jerome Thoms. Art director: Charles Clague. Set decorator: Robert Bradfield. Music director: Mischa Bakaleinikoff. Stunt double for Charles Starrett: Jock Mahoney. Production manager: Jack Fier. Assistant director: Carter De Haven, Jr. Sound recording: Lambert Day. Producer: Colbert Clark.
Copyright 19 December 1946 by Columbia Pictures Corporation. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 10 December 1946. Australian release: 28 August 1947. 6 reels. 5,578 feet. 61 minutes.
U.K. release title: GOLDEN LADY.
SYNOPSIS: Prospector discovers a cache of gold in the Texas hills.
NOTES: Starrett's 85th western.
COMMENT: This Durango Kid entry is worth seeing if only the invigorating presence of Helen Mowery who adds more than a spice of interest to an already promising script idea. (We are never quite sure whose side she's on, which—by the standards of the "B" western which tends to relegate heroines to the decorative sidelines—is quite a novel story development).
The other players are also more than merely competent. And it's always a pleasure to catch George Chesebro at his villainous best.
Derwin Abrahams has directed with unusual (for him) pace and drive. Even the musical interludes are also pleasant.
Director: DERWIN ABRAHAMS. Original screenplay: Ed Earl Repp. Photography: Philip Tannura. Film editor: Jerome Thoms. Art director: Charles Clague. Set decorator: Robert Bradfield. Music director: Mischa Bakaleinikoff. Stunt double for Charles Starrett: Jock Mahoney. Production manager: Jack Fier. Assistant director: Carter De Haven, Jr. Sound recording: Lambert Day. Producer: Colbert Clark.
Copyright 19 December 1946 by Columbia Pictures Corporation. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 10 December 1946. Australian release: 28 August 1947. 6 reels. 5,578 feet. 61 minutes.
U.K. release title: GOLDEN LADY.
SYNOPSIS: Prospector discovers a cache of gold in the Texas hills.
NOTES: Starrett's 85th western.
COMMENT: This Durango Kid entry is worth seeing if only the invigorating presence of Helen Mowery who adds more than a spice of interest to an already promising script idea. (We are never quite sure whose side she's on, which—by the standards of the "B" western which tends to relegate heroines to the decorative sidelines—is quite a novel story development).
The other players are also more than merely competent. And it's always a pleasure to catch George Chesebro at his villainous best.
Derwin Abrahams has directed with unusual (for him) pace and drive. Even the musical interludes are also pleasant.