Director: ALAN JAMES. Screenplay: Elizabeth Beecher. Original screen story: Frances Kavanaugh. Photography: Marcel Le Picard. Film editor: Fred Bain. Music director: Frank Sanucci. Production manager: Fred Hoose. Assistant director: Robert Emmett Tansey. Sound recording: Glen Glenn. Producer: Robert Tansey.
Copyright 16 April 1943 by Monogram Pictures Corp. U.S. release: 16 April 1943. 6 reels. 59 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Indians on the warpath against railroad workers again. This time rustlers are stirring the pot.
COMMENT: Although Glenn Strange must be the only member of the cast who bothers to aim his pistol before pressing the trigger, there is otherwise plenty of fairly effective action and stuntwork in this Trail Blazers western.
Director James tries his best to infuse a bit of energy into the tired plot with occasional flurries of camera movement, despite lighting photography that is mostly as flat and uninteresting as the dreary studio sets. True, Frank Sanucci's music score is even more flat-footed and pedestrian. All the same this entry is slightly above average by Monogram's humble standards.
Copyright 16 April 1943 by Monogram Pictures Corp. U.S. release: 16 April 1943. 6 reels. 59 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Indians on the warpath against railroad workers again. This time rustlers are stirring the pot.
COMMENT: Although Glenn Strange must be the only member of the cast who bothers to aim his pistol before pressing the trigger, there is otherwise plenty of fairly effective action and stuntwork in this Trail Blazers western.
Director James tries his best to infuse a bit of energy into the tired plot with occasional flurries of camera movement, despite lighting photography that is mostly as flat and uninteresting as the dreary studio sets. True, Frank Sanucci's music score is even more flat-footed and pedestrian. All the same this entry is slightly above average by Monogram's humble standards.