The Columbia cow boy Bs that Lederman made with Buck Jones and Tim McCoy are exemplary and this one is a welcome addition to the collection.
Limited by budget and unpolished early sound technique, we still get those evocative western vistas, lots of hard riding and blazing away with side arms and even a bit of characterisation.
Col Tim is a rodeo rider, who the saloon idlers deride ("Ain't he pretty!") till he sorts them out. Rancher McKee's horses are being stolen, so Tim takes on the job, getting into a confrontation with foreman McDonald and stopping a range war with neighbor Love, who must have thought of his brief footage as slumming. This film has a surprisingly strong cast.
There is a rendition of "Bloom is on the Sage" in which our hero doesn't join but the piece lacks background music. That would have helped the stampede in particular - instead of that creaky wind track.
Limited by budget and unpolished early sound technique, we still get those evocative western vistas, lots of hard riding and blazing away with side arms and even a bit of characterisation.
Col Tim is a rodeo rider, who the saloon idlers deride ("Ain't he pretty!") till he sorts them out. Rancher McKee's horses are being stolen, so Tim takes on the job, getting into a confrontation with foreman McDonald and stopping a range war with neighbor Love, who must have thought of his brief footage as slumming. This film has a surprisingly strong cast.
There is a rendition of "Bloom is on the Sage" in which our hero doesn't join but the piece lacks background music. That would have helped the stampede in particular - instead of that creaky wind track.
