"Law of the Lawless" is another of Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown/Raymond Hatton series westerns. In this one the boys are not hero/sidekick. Hatton is Bodie a concerned citizen who summons "Johnny Mack" (Brown) to help the town of Medicine Flats get rid of a gang of gamblers cheating its citizens out of their hard earned money and to avenge the murder of his friend Henry Adams.
The gang is headquartered in the Golden Spur Saloon run by, now get this, Kansas City Kate (Christine McIntyre). Together with her cohorts Cameo Carson (Tristram Coffin), Yuma (Marshall Reed) and Clem (Gary Garrett), they have amassed quite a bankroll by cheating their customers.
After conferring with Bodie, Jason (Steve Clark), Dave (Cactus Mack sans mustache) among others, Johnny agrees to take on the job of exposing the gang. Bodie re-discovers an old hiding place beneath the saloon where he overhears the gang's plans to move their loot to an outside bank. Johnny and his friends foil the gang's attempts to move the money.
Saloon girl Donna (June Harrison) who is fending off Cameo's advances decides to help Johnny by warning him of the gang's intentions.
Cameo discovers Bodie and Johnny's hiding place and Yuma confronts Bodie and shoots him in the back (the dirty rat). Johnny forces Clem to reveal where Yuma has fled and goes after him for retribution. Meanwhile Cameo decides to "get out of here" and tries to run off with the contents of Kate's safe. However, he is caught by Kate and............................
The film moves along quite briskly. There are a couple of fights, one between Johnny and Yuma and a dandy one between Johnny and Cameo at the film's climax. There is also the requisite shootouts between the opposing gangs as well.
The cast is full of recognizable faces. In addition to those already mentioned, we have Edmund Cobb as a miner who strikes it rich and I. Stanford Jolley as gunfighter "The Cherokee Kid".
An entertaining 54 minutes.
The gang is headquartered in the Golden Spur Saloon run by, now get this, Kansas City Kate (Christine McIntyre). Together with her cohorts Cameo Carson (Tristram Coffin), Yuma (Marshall Reed) and Clem (Gary Garrett), they have amassed quite a bankroll by cheating their customers.
After conferring with Bodie, Jason (Steve Clark), Dave (Cactus Mack sans mustache) among others, Johnny agrees to take on the job of exposing the gang. Bodie re-discovers an old hiding place beneath the saloon where he overhears the gang's plans to move their loot to an outside bank. Johnny and his friends foil the gang's attempts to move the money.
Saloon girl Donna (June Harrison) who is fending off Cameo's advances decides to help Johnny by warning him of the gang's intentions.
Cameo discovers Bodie and Johnny's hiding place and Yuma confronts Bodie and shoots him in the back (the dirty rat). Johnny forces Clem to reveal where Yuma has fled and goes after him for retribution. Meanwhile Cameo decides to "get out of here" and tries to run off with the contents of Kate's safe. However, he is caught by Kate and............................
The film moves along quite briskly. There are a couple of fights, one between Johnny and Yuma and a dandy one between Johnny and Cameo at the film's climax. There is also the requisite shootouts between the opposing gangs as well.
The cast is full of recognizable faces. In addition to those already mentioned, we have Edmund Cobb as a miner who strikes it rich and I. Stanford Jolley as gunfighter "The Cherokee Kid".
An entertaining 54 minutes.
