I've seen lots of films with Guinn Williams who usually played good natured palookas and sidekicks of the male lead in westerns and not in westerns. In his youth in silent and early sound days he was still a cowboy lead. In Cowboy Holiday this was the first time I'd ever seen him as a lead.
Williams unlike a lot of his contemporaries knew when it was up for him as a lead and he wisely transitioned to character roles where 99% of film fans know him today.
Cowboy Holiday lacks a certain cohesion that would have even made it believable to the Saturday matinée crowd. Williams is on a holiday visiting his foster parents, his foster father being the sheriff who is having a devil of a time capturing the Juarez Kid. Williams knows the kid played by Julian Rivero and he sure he's not doing all the bad things attributed to him lately. Someone is masquerading as the Juarez Kid and cashing in on his bad reputation. It's up to Big Boy to find out who it is before stepdad loses his job.
Maybe bad editing or a bad script in the first place, but there's a whole lot that just doesn't make sense. Still if you want to see Guinn Williams as a cowboy hero instead of lunkhead sidekick Cowboy Holiday is the film for you.
Williams unlike a lot of his contemporaries knew when it was up for him as a lead and he wisely transitioned to character roles where 99% of film fans know him today.
Cowboy Holiday lacks a certain cohesion that would have even made it believable to the Saturday matinée crowd. Williams is on a holiday visiting his foster parents, his foster father being the sheriff who is having a devil of a time capturing the Juarez Kid. Williams knows the kid played by Julian Rivero and he sure he's not doing all the bad things attributed to him lately. Someone is masquerading as the Juarez Kid and cashing in on his bad reputation. It's up to Big Boy to find out who it is before stepdad loses his job.
Maybe bad editing or a bad script in the first place, but there's a whole lot that just doesn't make sense. Still if you want to see Guinn Williams as a cowboy hero instead of lunkhead sidekick Cowboy Holiday is the film for you.