Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City.Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City.Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City.
Carmen Laroux
- Juanita
- (as Carmen LaRoux)
Frank Ball
- Jake (Banker)
- (uncredited)
Frank Brownlee
- Sheriff of Rattlesnake Gulch
- (uncredited)
Tommy Coats
- Deputy Tommy
- (uncredited)
Bert Dillard
- Deputy in Checked Shirt
- (uncredited)
Frank Ellis
- Poker Player
- (uncredited)
Jack Evans
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Olin Francis
- Poker Player
- (uncredited)
Herman Hack
- Posse Rider
- (uncredited)
Jack Hendricks
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Theodore Lorch
- Robbed Stage Passenger
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe earliest documented telecasts of this film occurred in Detroit Saturday 19 February 1949 on WXYZ (Channel 7), in Fort Worth Monday 14 March 1949 on WBAP (Channel 5), in Syracuse Sunday 29 May on WHEN (Channel 8), in Philadelphia Sunday 26 June 1949 on WFIL (Channel 6), in Los Angeles Sunday 14 August 1949 on KTSL (Channel 2) and Saturday 28 January 1950 on KECA (Channel 7), in Albuquerque Tuesday 29 November 1949 on KOB (Channel 4), and in New York City Sunday 30 July 1950 on WOR (Channel 9).
- GoofsAfter Scott stops the stage, he agrees to drive it into town. He jumps on the driver's seat and heads off, leaving his own horse behind. However, as the stage arrives in town, his horse can be seen tied on behind the stage.
- Quotes
Kansas Charlie, aka Rev. Harry Smith: Do you mean to insinuate that I'm dumb?
John Scott, aka John Jones: No. Dumber!
- Alternate versionsAlso available in a computer colorized version.
- ConnectionsEdited into Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)
- SoundtracksThe Last Lap
(uncredited)
Music by Carl Albert Egener
Featured review
One of Wayne's better early westerns
This early John Wayne Lone Star western has a bit more going for it than the run-of-the-mill oaters Wayne had been making for Lone Star up until that time. For one, it has his old friend Paul Fix in it; Fix, being a much better actor then the standard Lone Star villain, brings a much needed professionalism to the surroundings instead of the usual hesitant line-readings often delivered in these oaters. The plot, about mistaken identity, payroll robbery and murder, is as trite and perfunctory as you'd expect it to be in a 1930s low-budget western, but Wayne's strapping good looks, easygoing charm and way with a line go a long way to making this more enjoyable. Plump, balding Eddy Chandler isn't quite believable as Wayne's womanizing "partner", and there's a running gag about something that happens whenever Chandler and Wayne are about to get into a fistfight that grows tiresome. On the other hand, Wayne's love interest is played by none other than Mary Kornman, the little "Mary" of the early "Little Rascals" fame. She is a grown-up 20-year-old now, blonde and cute as a button. Most of Wayne's leading ladies in these Lone Star/Monogram "B's" were fairly bland and colorless, but Mary is perky, cute and, yes, sexy. There's a scene in the general store, where she works, in which Wayne asks her to get him a bottle of "nerve tonic", which happens to be on the top shelf, so she has to get a ladder and climb up to the top shelf. Wayne's ogling of her pert little backside as she ascends the steps, then again as she comes down, then again a few minuter later when he asks her to climb up and get him another bottle, is surprisingly racy for a film made in 1935. Wayne makes no attempt at all to hide the fact that he is definitely checking out her butt. It's surprising that this got past the Hays Office censors, but they were probably more concerned with the product that came out of the "main" studios rather than a cheap "B" western from some--as far as they were concerned--no-name outfit.
Anyway, it's an interesting little "B", not great but not as choppy and disorganized as many of his Lone Star productions of the time. The final gunfight isn't handled all that well, and Chandler gets somewhat irritating after a while, but all in all, it's worth a look, if only to see a cute and sexy Mary Kornman.
Anyway, it's an interesting little "B", not great but not as choppy and disorganized as many of his Lone Star productions of the time. The final gunfight isn't handled all that well, and Chandler gets somewhat irritating after a while, but all in all, it's worth a look, if only to see a cute and sexy Mary Kornman.
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- frankfob
- Aug 21, 2006
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- Runtime54 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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