Bullets and Saddles

This is yet another Range Busters film from Monogram Pictures. However, in later films Dusty King became one of the three do-gooders, along with Crash Corrigan and Tex Terhune and his bizarro sidekick, Elmer the ventriloquist dummy!

The film features a very familiar plot--a baddie is creating all sorts of havoc in order to force other ranchers off their land. Using his paid baddies, he does all sorts of mischief...so much so that one of the local ladies calls for the Range Busters (though, oddly, they are never referred to as this in the film). Naturally this means Terhune will whip out Elmer...a strange gimmick that he employed in most of his films. Imagine...a cowboy with a dummy...and no one seems to think it's THAT unusual AND no one recognizes him or knows of him by reputation!!

Overall, enjoyable and fast...clocking in at just under 54 minutes and offering very few surprises but some decent action and acting. One of the only surprises, albeit a minor one, is the presence of Glen Strange. This man made a lot of westerns and appeared frequently on "Gunsmoke" but is known more as playing the Frankenstein monster in the 1940s.