Plot - Roy assumes role of his visual double, a bad guy, in order to uncover a complex land-grabbing scheme that's threatening his old homesite.
Here Roy has a double role, a bad guy as well as his usual cowboy hero. So, can you keep them straight, since they dress alike. Anyway, it's an overly complex plot in my little book, but not without compensations.
There's lots of scenic hard riding, even though it's the greater LA area. And catch the scenic rock spires of Vasquez Rocks, a cheap place to film being LA county property, which is why oaters of the time loved filming there.
Also, there's some fast shooting, but no flying fists. And, be sure to catch actress Beryl Wallace as good-bad girl Julie, who almost steals the show. She reminds me of voluptuous B-movie vixen Marie Windsor, e.g. (The Killing {1956}). Too bad Beryl died young in a plane crash.
The flick's also a fine baddie threesome of Fowley, Strange, and Barcroft, enough to please any old movie fan. Happily, Gabby adds his usual toothless mugging in amusing style. But what about Trigger. Catch his and Roy's ride down that steep hillside where it looks like the palomino is about to take a bad fall just as the filming shifts away. I sure hope he didn't.
All in all, it's an okay Rogers entry, but to me, the screenplay needs a re-write into a more appropriate 55-minute format. Still, Roy, Gabby and crew carry us along as usual. Thanks guys.
Here Roy has a double role, a bad guy as well as his usual cowboy hero. So, can you keep them straight, since they dress alike. Anyway, it's an overly complex plot in my little book, but not without compensations.
There's lots of scenic hard riding, even though it's the greater LA area. And catch the scenic rock spires of Vasquez Rocks, a cheap place to film being LA county property, which is why oaters of the time loved filming there.
Also, there's some fast shooting, but no flying fists. And, be sure to catch actress Beryl Wallace as good-bad girl Julie, who almost steals the show. She reminds me of voluptuous B-movie vixen Marie Windsor, e.g. (The Killing {1956}). Too bad Beryl died young in a plane crash.
The flick's also a fine baddie threesome of Fowley, Strange, and Barcroft, enough to please any old movie fan. Happily, Gabby adds his usual toothless mugging in amusing style. But what about Trigger. Catch his and Roy's ride down that steep hillside where it looks like the palomino is about to take a bad fall just as the filming shifts away. I sure hope he didn't.
All in all, it's an okay Rogers entry, but to me, the screenplay needs a re-write into a more appropriate 55-minute format. Still, Roy, Gabby and crew carry us along as usual. Thanks guys.