Jack Hoxie (Tex Blane), Lane Chandler (Jim Perkins), Kaye Edwards (Mary Ann Perkins), William P. Burt (Dan Allen), Ben Corbett (Windy), Harry Todd (Skinny), Charles Slim Whitaker (Jarvis), Roger Williams (Placerville sheriff), Bob Fleming (Custer City sheriff), Irving Bacon (deputy), Bart Carre (the land agent), Chuck Baldra, Jack Kirk (cowboys), Olin Francis (bartender), Bud McClure (Joe), Henry Toquemore (doctor), Bob Roper (henchman guard), and "Dynamite".
Director: LEWIS D. COLLINS. Screenplay: Oliver Drake. Photography: William Nobles. Film editor: S. Roy Luby. Assistant director: Bart Carre. Sound recording: Earl Crain. Producer: Henry L. Goldstone.
Not copyright by Western Star Productions. Released by Majestic Pictures: 15 May 1933. No recorded New York opening. 55 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A cantankerous Custer City storekeeper decides to visit his niece at in a neighboring town for a rest. Unfortunately for his piece of mind, a local cowboy has his eyes on the niece and follows him to Placerville.
COMMENT: Jack Hoxie, now there's a name to conjure with! I'd never seen him before, so it was hard to realize at first that this lumbering, thick-set cowboy with the oddly babyish face was actually the star of the film.
However, Hoxie's a personable lad and he's well supported in this effort by a first-rate support cast including William Burt as the irascible storekeeper, Kaye Edwards as the pretty niece, plus Ben Corbett and Harry Todd as the "Trouble Busters".
The movie is largely a comic piece, cleverly written, well-staged and crisply paced (although the fight scenes are on the weak side), nicely photographed and presented, with at least one really spectacular action stunt and at least three or four attractive story ideas.
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