SYNOPSIS: When Gardner's mine payroll is stolen by outlaws, he demands action of the town marshal in bringing the outlaws to justice. His threat to ask help from the Santa Fe marshal disturbs Blake, Flint and Tex, outlaws bossed by Ma Burton who have perpetrated the crime, but she re-assures them.
Hopalong Cassidy, sent to help Gardner, tells him he'll do his best to bring in the outlaws and protect £15,000 in silver bullion which Gardner has at the mine. On his way to Del Oro, Hopalong meets Doc Bates, proprietor of a medicine show, his daughter, Paula, and his helper, Axel.
NOTES: With Lone Pine and Kernville battling each other for supremacy as locations for motion pictures made out of doors, Harry Sherman left both holding the bag when he filmed Santa Fe Marshal at a new location. In place of the older locations where he has made so many of the series, Sherman chose Keen Camp, high in the San Jacinto mountains, for his location.
COMMENT: Good to see the delightful Bernadene Hayes as the heroine of this entry, making a great contrast to that fine character actress, Marjorie Rambeau, who plays the villainess. We also like the plot of this one, which is unusual in that it introduces a medicine show. The show is good, but unfortunately Earle Hodgins is allowed to deliver his spiel in one long take that runs well over three minutes, which is far too long! However, at least Hoppy does not have one of his usual comic sidekicks. There is the usual amount of action in the final reel, but Russell Harlan's camerawork is not to the fore in this one.
Hopalong Cassidy, sent to help Gardner, tells him he'll do his best to bring in the outlaws and protect £15,000 in silver bullion which Gardner has at the mine. On his way to Del Oro, Hopalong meets Doc Bates, proprietor of a medicine show, his daughter, Paula, and his helper, Axel.
NOTES: With Lone Pine and Kernville battling each other for supremacy as locations for motion pictures made out of doors, Harry Sherman left both holding the bag when he filmed Santa Fe Marshal at a new location. In place of the older locations where he has made so many of the series, Sherman chose Keen Camp, high in the San Jacinto mountains, for his location.
COMMENT: Good to see the delightful Bernadene Hayes as the heroine of this entry, making a great contrast to that fine character actress, Marjorie Rambeau, who plays the villainess. We also like the plot of this one, which is unusual in that it introduces a medicine show. The show is good, but unfortunately Earle Hodgins is allowed to deliver his spiel in one long take that runs well over three minutes, which is far too long! However, at least Hoppy does not have one of his usual comic sidekicks. There is the usual amount of action in the final reel, but Russell Harlan's camerawork is not to the fore in this one.