Review of Susanna Pass

Roy uses a little reverse psychology in the picture when he arrests Doc Parker (Dale Evans) for the murder of her boss, and almost immediately lets her know it was a ruse to flush out the real killer of fish hatchery owner Russell Masters (Lucien Littlefield). The villains here include Masters' brother Martin (Robert Emmett Keane) and escaped convict Roberts using an alias (Douglas Fowley), who have designs on taking over the hatchery because there's a lot of oil underneath the lake that's being used to raise trout from hatchlings. There's a neat little tutorial offered by Dale's character about midway that explains the process of fertilizing the trout eggs, having them hatch, and the care and feeding afterward until they're ready to be released to the wild. Once he solves the case of the brother's murder, Roy offers Doc Parker his best wishes for her to carry on the work of the hatchery so that future generations of sportsmen can enjoy fishing in the great outdoors, a message that would have been timely with the advancement of America's march into the 1950's and beyond.

When I pulled this title up on Tubi TV, it was offered like many of Roy's later flicks as part of Roy and Dale's Happy Trails Theater. They usually had a guest on hand from the movie that was about to be shown, but they strayed from that formula for this film by having Gene Autry and Pat Buttram as guests! Most of their conversation had to do with their movie and TV sidekicks, and as far as I can tell, they didn't miss a single one. That was worth seeing as much as the picture!