Dick Foran (Red Barton), Helen Valkis (Barbara Morgan), John Merton (Jim Hess), Glenn Strange (Pee Wee), Mira McKinney (Aunt Sarah), Kenneth Harlan (Major Taylor), Milton Kibbee (Mort), Harry Otho (Hank), Gordon Hart (Frank), Wilfred Lucas (One-Eye), and Bud Osborne, Ben Corbett, Jack Mower, Artie Ortego, Gene Alsace {Rocky Camron}, Frank Ellis, Cactus Mack, Tom Burns, and "Smoke", the Wonder Horse.
Director: NOEL SMITH. Screenplay: John T. Neville. Based on the story, "Miracle Mountain", by Anthony Coldeway. Photography: Ted McCord. Film editor: Frederick B. Richards. Art director: Ted Smith. Dialogue director. Frank Kowalski. Songs by M.K. Jerome and Jack Scholl: "In a Little County Town' (Foran) and "Ridin' On To Monterey' (Foran). Producer: Bryan Foy.
Copyright 26 April 1937 by Warner Bros Pictures, Inc. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 12 June 1937. No British or Australian theatrical release recorded. 6 reels. 55 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A Government agent manages to join a gang that's robbing gold shipments.
COMMENT: Usually, producer Bryan Foy's "B" movies have something to recommend them, but not this one! It weighs in as a perfunctorily directed, low-budget western, with only two major claims on an indulgent viewer's attention, namely our personable singing hero, Dick Foran, and Ted McCord's admirably glossy photography. What on earth is a superb photographer of McCord's standing, doing on this bottom- budget vehicle? Producer BRYAN FOY (of the Seven Little Foys) must have twisted his arm!
And as for "Smoke", the so-called "wonder horse", what in heck is so wonderful about HIM?
Director: NOEL SMITH. Screenplay: John T. Neville. Based on the story, "Miracle Mountain", by Anthony Coldeway. Photography: Ted McCord. Film editor: Frederick B. Richards. Art director: Ted Smith. Dialogue director. Frank Kowalski. Songs by M.K. Jerome and Jack Scholl: "In a Little County Town' (Foran) and "Ridin' On To Monterey' (Foran). Producer: Bryan Foy.
Copyright 26 April 1937 by Warner Bros Pictures, Inc. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 12 June 1937. No British or Australian theatrical release recorded. 6 reels. 55 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A Government agent manages to join a gang that's robbing gold shipments.
COMMENT: Usually, producer Bryan Foy's "B" movies have something to recommend them, but not this one! It weighs in as a perfunctorily directed, low-budget western, with only two major claims on an indulgent viewer's attention, namely our personable singing hero, Dick Foran, and Ted McCord's admirably glossy photography. What on earth is a superb photographer of McCord's standing, doing on this bottom- budget vehicle? Producer BRYAN FOY (of the Seven Little Foys) must have twisted his arm!
And as for "Smoke", the so-called "wonder horse", what in heck is so wonderful about HIM?