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U.S. marshal John Carruthers observes a robbery and Sheriff Jake thinks he may be the culprit. Meanwhile the town's leading citizen is planning to rob everybody blind.U.S. marshal John Carruthers observes a robbery and Sheriff Jake thinks he may be the culprit. Meanwhile the town's leading citizen is planning to rob everybody blind.U.S. marshal John Carruthers observes a robbery and Sheriff Jake thinks he may be the culprit. Meanwhile the town's leading citizen is planning to rob everybody blind.
George 'Gabby' Hayes
- Sheriff Jake Withers
- (as George Hayes)
Edward Peil Sr.
- Malgrove
- (as Edward Peil)
Chris Allen
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Barney Beasley
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Hank Bell
- Stage Driver
- (uncredited)
Buck Bucko
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Horace B. Carpenter
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Adabelle Driver
- Townswoman
- (uncredited)
Jack Evans
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Herman Hack
- Henchman
- (uncredited)
Henry Hall
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Theodore Lorch
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
- GoofsCarruthers and Withers pursue the bandits across the plain, but fail to recognise Danti when he and Malgrove find them with the body of Dan Mason.
- Quotes
John Carruthers: I'm glad you decided to drift along with me. It's kind of lonesome trailing alone.
- Alternate versionsAlso available in a computer colorized version.
- ConnectionsEdited into Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)
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Almost all the Lone Star John Wayne movies have one or two quite unusual and memorable scenes. Here, it is the bizarre opening scene and the beautiful last shot. The opening is actually quite a mess. It takes place in a hotel room on a rainy night and it is hard to tell what is going on for most of the scene. There is also the only risqué double-entendre that I've seen in a Lone Star film when a newlywed husband comes back downstairs from his bridal suite and announces "I can't find it." The ending shot is Wayne riding off into the mountains with his girl and it is just lovely.
The confusing and messy hotel sequence in the beginning is atoned for at the end with one of the best final chase sequences in the series. As mentions by other users, the stunt work is excellent and the scene of Wayne picking her his fallen lady from the ground while riding a team of galloping horses is still sweet, if not quite breath-taking.
As the ten minute final chase scene is a big element in all the Lone Star Westerns, I would have to rate this highly, although the other 40 minutes does drag a bit.
Edward Peil Sr. plays a great villain as he did in "Man from Utah". He was in some 375 films in his 40 year career.
Yakima Canutt, as usual, is effective as a bad guy too. With a little luck, he would have been as big a star as Wayne.
Not the best Lone Star, but it is effective.
The confusing and messy hotel sequence in the beginning is atoned for at the end with one of the best final chase sequences in the series. As mentions by other users, the stunt work is excellent and the scene of Wayne picking her his fallen lady from the ground while riding a team of galloping horses is still sweet, if not quite breath-taking.
As the ten minute final chase scene is a big element in all the Lone Star Westerns, I would have to rate this highly, although the other 40 minutes does drag a bit.
Edward Peil Sr. plays a great villain as he did in "Man from Utah". He was in some 375 films in his 40 year career.
Yakima Canutt, as usual, is effective as a bad guy too. With a little luck, he would have been as big a star as Wayne.
Not the best Lone Star, but it is effective.
- jayraskin1
- Oct 8, 2007
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- Runtime52 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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