Lash La Rue (himself), Al St John (Fuzzy Q. Jones), Suzi Crandall (Mary Phillips), Jimmie Martin (Danny Phillips), Marshall Reed (Lance Taggart), John L. Cason (Colt Jackson), Tom London (Lem Kimmerly), Steve Dunhill (Jess), Lee Roberts (Ace Talbot), Cliff Taylor (coffin maker), Britt Wood (bartender), Ray Henderson (aka Jack Hendricks} (Bill Gunnison), Harry Cody (sheriff).
Director: RAY TAYLOR. Screenplay: Ron Ormond, Ira Webb. Photography: Ernest Miller. Film editor: Hugh Winn. Music composed and directed by Walter Greene. Art director: Vincent Taylor. Camera operator: Archie Dalzell. Grip: Noble Craig. Stills: James Doolittle. Continuity girl: Moree Herring. Assistant director: Austen Jewell. Sound recording: Glen Glenn. Producer: Ron Ormond.
Copyright 1 November 1948 by Western Adventure Productions, Inc. Released through Screen Guild: 15 October 1948. No recorded New York opening. Never theatrically released in Australia. 57 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Lance Taggart, owner of the Red Rock saloon, has plans to take over the local homesteads, but is thwarted by Marshal Lash La Rue.
COMMENT: Except for the presence of the lovely Suzi Crandall, this is a somewhat dull entry in the Lash La Rue series. True, there's a fair amount of fighting (in which Mr La Rue admirably performs almost all his own stunts) and hard riding (always filmed from the same boring camera angles, mostly panned left to right), but the villain has no personality to speak of. He's one of the most tepid heavies we've ever encountered.
The script, of course, is an amalgam of various western clichés, including the ticking clock (a motif which later reached the height of perfection in "High Noon") and the final gunfight (later topped in "The Gunfight at the OK Corral").
The music score can only be described as insistently banal.
Undiscriminating fans (are there any out there?) will enjoy this outing nonetheless.
Director: RAY TAYLOR. Screenplay: Ron Ormond, Ira Webb. Photography: Ernest Miller. Film editor: Hugh Winn. Music composed and directed by Walter Greene. Art director: Vincent Taylor. Camera operator: Archie Dalzell. Grip: Noble Craig. Stills: James Doolittle. Continuity girl: Moree Herring. Assistant director: Austen Jewell. Sound recording: Glen Glenn. Producer: Ron Ormond.
Copyright 1 November 1948 by Western Adventure Productions, Inc. Released through Screen Guild: 15 October 1948. No recorded New York opening. Never theatrically released in Australia. 57 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Lance Taggart, owner of the Red Rock saloon, has plans to take over the local homesteads, but is thwarted by Marshal Lash La Rue.
COMMENT: Except for the presence of the lovely Suzi Crandall, this is a somewhat dull entry in the Lash La Rue series. True, there's a fair amount of fighting (in which Mr La Rue admirably performs almost all his own stunts) and hard riding (always filmed from the same boring camera angles, mostly panned left to right), but the villain has no personality to speak of. He's one of the most tepid heavies we've ever encountered.
The script, of course, is an amalgam of various western clichés, including the ticking clock (a motif which later reached the height of perfection in "High Noon") and the final gunfight (later topped in "The Gunfight at the OK Corral").
The music score can only be described as insistently banal.
Undiscriminating fans (are there any out there?) will enjoy this outing nonetheless.
