Lane Chandler (Tex Broderick), Blanche Mehaffey (a.k.a. Janet Morgan) (Jean Bennett), J.P. McGowan (Sheriff Jim Porter), Charles "Slim" Whitaker (Bowie Harris), Ben Corbett (Bud McClure), George S. (presumably for Sourdough) "Gabby" Hayes (Cactus Barnes), Tex Palmer (henchman), Herman Hack (barfly).
Director: J.P. McGOWAN. Screenplay: Kaye Northrop. Story: J. Wesley Patterson. Photography: James Diamond. Film editor: Charles Henkel. Assistant director: Mack V. Wright. Sound recording: Corson Jowett. Production supervisor: Fred S. Hirsch. Producers: Nathan Hirsch, Fred S.Hirsch.
Copyright 7 August 1935 by Empire Film Distributors, Inc. An H. & H. Production. Released by Kinematrade. No New York opening. No recorded U.S. release date. An entry in The Phantom Rider series. 6 reels. 56 minutes. (An Alpha DVD).
SYNOPSIS: Wanted for cattle rustling, a fugitive is sheltered and nursed back to health by a sympathetic girl storekeeper, who is being romanced by the local sheriff.
COMMENT: A little below the pacily inventive standard we expect of J.P. McGowan, though still of considerable interest, this one was obviously shot in haste (we recognise a few stock shots). The story is slight and the hero - fortunately he is off-camera for more than half the running time - rather limp.
But J.P. McGowan is his usual strident self, even though he fails to throw his punches with the wild abandon he usually demanded of others. Miss Mehaffey makes a pretty spunky heroine, Ben Corbett has a small but straight role, and Hayes does an early "Gabby" impersonation, with many of the familiar mannerisms already off pat.
Director: J.P. McGOWAN. Screenplay: Kaye Northrop. Story: J. Wesley Patterson. Photography: James Diamond. Film editor: Charles Henkel. Assistant director: Mack V. Wright. Sound recording: Corson Jowett. Production supervisor: Fred S. Hirsch. Producers: Nathan Hirsch, Fred S.Hirsch.
Copyright 7 August 1935 by Empire Film Distributors, Inc. An H. & H. Production. Released by Kinematrade. No New York opening. No recorded U.S. release date. An entry in The Phantom Rider series. 6 reels. 56 minutes. (An Alpha DVD).
SYNOPSIS: Wanted for cattle rustling, a fugitive is sheltered and nursed back to health by a sympathetic girl storekeeper, who is being romanced by the local sheriff.
COMMENT: A little below the pacily inventive standard we expect of J.P. McGowan, though still of considerable interest, this one was obviously shot in haste (we recognise a few stock shots). The story is slight and the hero - fortunately he is off-camera for more than half the running time - rather limp.
But J.P. McGowan is his usual strident self, even though he fails to throw his punches with the wild abandon he usually demanded of others. Miss Mehaffey makes a pretty spunky heroine, Ben Corbett has a small but straight role, and Hayes does an early "Gabby" impersonation, with many of the familiar mannerisms already off pat.