Although the events setting the stage for the plot are unusual, once this newness wears off you'll probably realize that this is a pretty standard B-movie Western. It's a decent time-passer, but not much else.
George O'Brien plays a cowboy movie star on location in Wyoming. While he's finishing a film, the local ranchers are being victimized by mobsters (in Wyoming?!) who are convincing everyone that it's the work of strikers. In return, the mobsters offer "protection" to the ranchers to get their cattle to market unharmed. Soon after George's friend 'Shakespeare' arrives (Joe Caits), the two are pulled into the battle between mobsters and ranchers--none of which know George is a movie star (apparently none of them ever went to a movie). Not surprisingly, by the end of the film, the baddies are captured by O'Brien and he gets the girl--exactly like you'd see in any other B-Western of the time.
No real surprises here--just a fairly typical baddies in the contemporary West getting theirs from the hero. Well made and watchable but not a film to rush to see.
George O'Brien plays a cowboy movie star on location in Wyoming. While he's finishing a film, the local ranchers are being victimized by mobsters (in Wyoming?!) who are convincing everyone that it's the work of strikers. In return, the mobsters offer "protection" to the ranchers to get their cattle to market unharmed. Soon after George's friend 'Shakespeare' arrives (Joe Caits), the two are pulled into the battle between mobsters and ranchers--none of which know George is a movie star (apparently none of them ever went to a movie). Not surprisingly, by the end of the film, the baddies are captured by O'Brien and he gets the girl--exactly like you'd see in any other B-Western of the time.
No real surprises here--just a fairly typical baddies in the contemporary West getting theirs from the hero. Well made and watchable but not a film to rush to see.