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Jailed for murders he didn't commit, Randy escapes only to stumble into the den of the real murderers.Jailed for murders he didn't commit, Randy escapes only to stumble into the den of the real murderers.Jailed for murders he didn't commit, Randy escapes only to stumble into the den of the real murderers.
George 'Gabby' Hayes
- Marvin Black aka Matt the Mute
- (as George Hayes)
Artie Ortego
- Deputy Al
- (as Arthur Artego)
Horace B. Carpenter
- Ed Rogers
- (uncredited)
Tommy Coats
- Kidnapper Joe
- (uncredited)
Herman Hack
- Posse Rider
- (uncredited)
- …
Perry Murdock
- Kidnapper Slim
- (uncredited)
Tex Palmer
- Henchman
- (uncredited)
Mack V. Wright
- Deputy
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThough released in 1934 (5-6 years after the first talkies), the film is shot very much like a silent movie. Some scenes are silent except for the random sound effect. Dialog seems kept to a minimum, and sound quality of dialog is generally very poor (though this may be related to the quality of the specific print being shown by TCM). Camera moves are sometimes shaky and frame rate often makes movement jerky.
- GoofsThe Vollmer player piano shown in the saloon wasn't produced until the early twentieth century.
- Quotes
Marvin Black, alias Matt Matthews: Well, where's the money?
Henchman Spike: We didn't get it. It wasn't in the safe.
Marvin Black, alias Matt Matthews: Whaddya mean, you didn't get it?
Henchman Spike: I'm telling you we couldn't find it.
Marvin Black, alias Matt Matthews: And you call yourselves "bad men"! I should have left you where I found you - brandin' calves!
- Alternate versionsIn 1985, Fox/Lorber Associates, Inc. and Classics Associates, Inc. copyrighted a version with new original music composed and orchestrated by William Barber. It was distributed for television by Fox/Lorber.
- ConnectionsEdited into Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)
Featured review
"And you call yourself a badman!"-- Hayes to Canutt after he bungles a robbery.
Above average fare from the Lone Star crew of worthies-- Hayes, Canutt, Dwire, and of course Wayne. Lindsley Parsons did several scripts for Wayne and Lone Star, but this one's arguably his best. Wayne's an undercover agent on the trail of an outlaw gang whose latest robbery ends in a massacre of saloon patrons and staff. The opening is a grabber as the camera surveys the corpse strewn floor, while a player piano bangs away in the background, eyes peer from holes in a painting, and a secret panel opens. The outlaw gang has a neat hideout in a hollow behind a waterfall. Their digs even includes, of all things, its own jail where the leading lady ends up! Some good hard riding, including (alas!) a trip-wire spill that looks dramatic, but I wonder if the horse survived. Canutt comes up with usual spectacular stunt as Wayne takes a fall from a ladder high up a rock face. Can't help but notice that Alberta Vaughn looks much too young to stack up as an adult leading lady, but manages okay in the acting department. The movie's unusual for rare use of a miniature as a special effect. It's pretty well done and money well spent since the ending makes unexpectedly good use of it. All in all, it's good clean fun, as they used to say.
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- dougdoepke
- May 30, 2008
Details
- Runtime52 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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