Jack Perrin (Captain Casey), Betty Mack (Jane Elkins), Wally Wales (Dave Casey), Fred Toones (Snowflake), Ed Cassidy (Karney), Dennis Moore (Lieutenant Brooks), Robert Walker (Colton), Phil Dunham (Abner), Victor Wong (Lee Fin), and "Starlight".
Director: HARRY FRASER. Screenplay: Weston Edwards. Story: Monroe Talbot. Photography: Robert Cline. Film editor: Arthur A. Brooks. Music effects: Lee Zahler. Assistant director: William Nolte. Sound engineer: T. Triplett. Producer: William Berke.
Not copyrighted 1936 by William Berke Productions. A Berke Perrin Blue Ribbon Western, released by Atlantic Pictures: 19 February 1936. No New York opening. 59 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: An army captain comes to the rescue of his rancher brother when border smugglers shoot one of his men.
COMMENT: Why is Jack Perrin in the army in this one? So that the producer can introduce a whole segment of WW1 stock footage, that's why. With one exception, the rest of this movie is of like cut-price quality. Clichéd writing, broom-cupboard sets, hammy acting (though I must admit Ed Cassidy fooled me), an innocuous heroine, a few location snips with minimal action, drearily nondescript direction. Plus an extra-special raspberry for the repulsive racial slur so heartily perpetrated by Fred Toones.
As for the one exception referred to above: — close-out music, would you believe? Not that anyone would be left in the theater to enjoy it.
Still, cliché collectors will have a field day. Samples: "This is a fine how-do-you-do!" — "Dead men tell no tales." — "Forewarned is fore-armed." — "We'll put a stop to this once and for all. Round up all the men you can trust."
No wonder Jack Perrin's star not only waned but simply disappeared!
Director: HARRY FRASER. Screenplay: Weston Edwards. Story: Monroe Talbot. Photography: Robert Cline. Film editor: Arthur A. Brooks. Music effects: Lee Zahler. Assistant director: William Nolte. Sound engineer: T. Triplett. Producer: William Berke.
Not copyrighted 1936 by William Berke Productions. A Berke Perrin Blue Ribbon Western, released by Atlantic Pictures: 19 February 1936. No New York opening. 59 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: An army captain comes to the rescue of his rancher brother when border smugglers shoot one of his men.
COMMENT: Why is Jack Perrin in the army in this one? So that the producer can introduce a whole segment of WW1 stock footage, that's why. With one exception, the rest of this movie is of like cut-price quality. Clichéd writing, broom-cupboard sets, hammy acting (though I must admit Ed Cassidy fooled me), an innocuous heroine, a few location snips with minimal action, drearily nondescript direction. Plus an extra-special raspberry for the repulsive racial slur so heartily perpetrated by Fred Toones.
As for the one exception referred to above: — close-out music, would you believe? Not that anyone would be left in the theater to enjoy it.
Still, cliché collectors will have a field day. Samples: "This is a fine how-do-you-do!" — "Dead men tell no tales." — "Forewarned is fore-armed." — "We'll put a stop to this once and for all. Round up all the men you can trust."
No wonder Jack Perrin's star not only waned but simply disappeared!
