Terra da Violência

Whip Wilson and Rand Brooks are surveying a valley for a railroad line. Peggy Stewart, who runs most of the valley, doesn't want the railroad, since it would mean the locals would be able to ship their cattle and trade with outsiders at better rates. Noel Neill is there to play Miss Stewart's good sister and for Brooks to ogle.

It's a good story and Lewis Collins directs with his usual efficiency; as usual, Whip Wilson is pretty bad. Not only is he incapable of delivering a line with any authority. He's grown a bit fat in this movie, and moves poorly except on horseback.Collins seems to have compensated for his inability to speak while moving by having everyone but Brooks stand still while talking.

Lewis Collins started out as a stage director. By the 1920s, he was in Hollywood, writing and directing shorts, B movies and even a serial or two along the way. He directed more than a hundred features and died, age 55, in 1954.