Buck Roberts (Buck Jones) and Sandy Hopkins (Ray Hatton) guide a wagon train loaded with railroad supplies through Indian territory on the way to Oregon. Jack Carson (Rex Bell) rounds out the good guy trio in a role that keeps one guessing who's side he's on as he trades in his buckskins for a new set of gambling duds. Carson is out to get the goods on the boss of Beaver Lake, Jim Corkle (Harry Woods); it's his gang that masquerades as Indians and takes out part of the wagon train that split up to protect the railroad goods.
The film hosts a pair of good looking young ladies. Mona Barrie portrays Sadie Rand, who in a clever bit of blackmail gains the gambling concession at Boss Korkle's saloon. On the sweeter side, Christine McIntyre is a settler heading West with her mother (Maude Eburn). Her contribution to the story consists of two song standards - "Rock of Ages" and "Beautiful Dreamer".
I don't know how the convention started, but why is it that when a wagon train or stagecoach is attacked and chased by outlaws or Indians, and the driver or his partner is shot from behind, he always goes down clutching his chest? It happens twice in this story.
The film was intended to be a Rough Riders movie; prior ones teamed Buck and Ray with cowboy star Tim McCoy. However the opening credits of the version I saw made no mention of the Rough Riders connection.
Speaking anecdotally, every Western ever made had one of three actors in it - Stanley Andrews, Glenn Strange or Roy Barcroft. Barcroft appears in this one, as a Korkle henchman named Loder. In the movie's one on one gunfight, Buck gets the drop on Loder, in what would be his final showdown. Sadly, Buck Jones died in an infamous fire that destroyed the Cocoanut Grove Night Club in Boston on November 28th, 1942. Nearly five hundred people lost their lives in that tragedy. For an excellent account of that incident, I would direct readers to the following site: http://www.surfnetinc.com/chuck/terms15.htm
The film hosts a pair of good looking young ladies. Mona Barrie portrays Sadie Rand, who in a clever bit of blackmail gains the gambling concession at Boss Korkle's saloon. On the sweeter side, Christine McIntyre is a settler heading West with her mother (Maude Eburn). Her contribution to the story consists of two song standards - "Rock of Ages" and "Beautiful Dreamer".
I don't know how the convention started, but why is it that when a wagon train or stagecoach is attacked and chased by outlaws or Indians, and the driver or his partner is shot from behind, he always goes down clutching his chest? It happens twice in this story.
The film was intended to be a Rough Riders movie; prior ones teamed Buck and Ray with cowboy star Tim McCoy. However the opening credits of the version I saw made no mention of the Rough Riders connection.
Speaking anecdotally, every Western ever made had one of three actors in it - Stanley Andrews, Glenn Strange or Roy Barcroft. Barcroft appears in this one, as a Korkle henchman named Loder. In the movie's one on one gunfight, Buck gets the drop on Loder, in what would be his final showdown. Sadly, Buck Jones died in an infamous fire that destroyed the Cocoanut Grove Night Club in Boston on November 28th, 1942. Nearly five hundred people lost their lives in that tragedy. For an excellent account of that incident, I would direct readers to the following site: http://www.surfnetinc.com/chuck/terms15.htm