The Law Rides Again is in the persons of silent movie cowboys Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson investigating just who's been stirring up the Indians in some unnamed part of the west.
Maynard and Gibson have their work cut out for them because the ring leader of the gang is none other than the Indian agent Kenneth Harlan. He's got a nice scheme in which he has a crew of picked Indians doing all kinds of bad deeds where he profits. Even the picked Indians led by Chief Thundercloud are getting ripped off by Harlan and his crowd.
Gibson has the idea and convinces Maynard to let a former outlaw who used to operate in the area, Jack LaRue, out on parole in their custody in order for them to use him as an undercover man. Of course LaRue has his own ideas and therein lies the tale.
Ever since Republic teamed three of their cowboy stars in the Three Mesquiteers a few years back all the studios were trying to imitate them. But I guess it's a sign of the cheapness of Monogram Pictures that they could only get two cowboy heroes who had seen better days to team, maybe three just wasn't in the budget.
Anyway Maynard and Gibson are the Trail Blazers in this film and some others they did for Monogram. The Law Rides Again isn't even up to the standards of the Gene Autry or Roy Rogers films from Republic, let alone the Three Mesquiteers with or without John Wayne.
Maynard and Gibson have their work cut out for them because the ring leader of the gang is none other than the Indian agent Kenneth Harlan. He's got a nice scheme in which he has a crew of picked Indians doing all kinds of bad deeds where he profits. Even the picked Indians led by Chief Thundercloud are getting ripped off by Harlan and his crowd.
Gibson has the idea and convinces Maynard to let a former outlaw who used to operate in the area, Jack LaRue, out on parole in their custody in order for them to use him as an undercover man. Of course LaRue has his own ideas and therein lies the tale.
Ever since Republic teamed three of their cowboy stars in the Three Mesquiteers a few years back all the studios were trying to imitate them. But I guess it's a sign of the cheapness of Monogram Pictures that they could only get two cowboy heroes who had seen better days to team, maybe three just wasn't in the budget.
Anyway Maynard and Gibson are the Trail Blazers in this film and some others they did for Monogram. The Law Rides Again isn't even up to the standards of the Gene Autry or Roy Rogers films from Republic, let alone the Three Mesquiteers with or without John Wayne.