Roy Rogers returns to the town of Sundown to avenge his father's murder when he was a kid, and in the process reconnects with the younger brother who witnessed that event, kidnapped by the killer and then raised as part of an outlaw gang. Whew! That sounds like a lot of stuff going on, but Republic Pictures managed to put it all together as a matter of routine and get it all done in just about an hour. Roy looks almost impossibly young here even though he already had a dozen lead roles with Republic since a quick year earlier. They sure could pound them out back then.
Gabby Hayes is on hand as the foreman for the Circle R Ranch, and if you pay attention, you'll hear him replace his usual 'you're durn tootin' line with a couple of 'by cracky's'. Hayes plies a few comic moments with Fern Emmett as Miss Minnie, looking to change him from a Gabby to a Hubby.
I did a head scratch when I saw the name Doris Day in the opening credits, but it turns out it wasn't THE Doris Day. The other notable player here is Don 'Red' Barry, Roy's long lost brother who makes the transition from Uncle Ed Tasker's chief henchman to last minute good guy. Unfortunately he didn't make it to the end of the picture.
A couple of oddities in this flick - for one, there's a non-Roy Rogers song that's done as a sound track over a posse ride about half way through the story; I haven't seen that before. Also, I can't recall ever seeing an outlaw, in this case Barry's character Jerry, throwing his empty pistol at Roy and hitting him in the chest. Not unusual for a Superman story where it happened all the time, but I don't see the advantage of just throwing away your gun - you might need it again some time!
Gabby Hayes is on hand as the foreman for the Circle R Ranch, and if you pay attention, you'll hear him replace his usual 'you're durn tootin' line with a couple of 'by cracky's'. Hayes plies a few comic moments with Fern Emmett as Miss Minnie, looking to change him from a Gabby to a Hubby.
I did a head scratch when I saw the name Doris Day in the opening credits, but it turns out it wasn't THE Doris Day. The other notable player here is Don 'Red' Barry, Roy's long lost brother who makes the transition from Uncle Ed Tasker's chief henchman to last minute good guy. Unfortunately he didn't make it to the end of the picture.
A couple of oddities in this flick - for one, there's a non-Roy Rogers song that's done as a sound track over a posse ride about half way through the story; I haven't seen that before. Also, I can't recall ever seeing an outlaw, in this case Barry's character Jerry, throwing his empty pistol at Roy and hitting him in the chest. Not unusual for a Superman story where it happened all the time, but I don't see the advantage of just throwing away your gun - you might need it again some time!