Review of Frontier Gambler

For the second time in 1956, Jim Davis was teamed with leading lady Coleen Gray, producer Sigmund Neufeld, and his brother-director Sam Newfield (yes, that's how his last name was spelled)-in another Associated Film Releasing Corporation production after The Wild Dakotas. Here, he's Tony Burton-a hired gunman for Veda Ann Borg who's fallen for Ms. Gray but also two-times her with Margia Dean, a singer. Ms. Gray turns up dead early on as we flashback to when she was alive...actually, it's advisable to be a bit skeptical on that last part. The deputy marshal (John Bromfield) also interviews the gambler (Kent Taylor) who molded her after finding her as a pre-teen orphan after an Indian attack that killed her parents. This was quite a pretty good melodrama and Mr. Davis has a fine part here as we see him as something a little more than a possible villain when he reveals what he's done on the night in question. So on that note, I recommend Frontier Gambler. P.S. Ms. Magia Dean wrote the song she performed here which I liked. Also, she's from my birthtown of Chicago, Ill as was fellow player Stanley Andrews who's Constable Philo Dewey here.