A sharpshooter in a traveling sideshow is falsely accused of murdering a local miner.A sharpshooter in a traveling sideshow is falsely accused of murdering a local miner.A sharpshooter in a traveling sideshow is falsely accused of murdering a local miner.
Horace B. Carpenter
- Prosecutor
- (as Horace Carpenter)
Hank Bell
- Deputy Hank
- (uncredited)
Buck Bucko
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
C.V. Bussey
- Cowboy
- (uncredited)
Herman Hack
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
Nelson McDowell
- The Coroner
- (uncredited)
Eva McKenzie
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
Fay McKenzie
- Young Girl Spectator
- (uncredited)
Milburn Morante
- Judge
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe earliest documented telecast of this film in New York City occurred Friday 13 December 1946 on DuMont Television Network's WABD (Channel 5). In Washington DC it first aired Wednesday 23 March 1949 on WMAL (Channel 7) and in Salt Lake City it was first telecast Saturday 26 November 1949 on KSL (Channel 5).
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Another typical Gibson film
Hoot Gibson is a name few would recognize today. Back in the 1930s, he was one of many B-movie cowboys and by 1936 he was towards the latter part of his career and was making flicks for lower status studios. In this case, it's Diversion Pictures--and it doesn't get a lot lower than that. However, fortunately, Gibson had a likable screen persona--such that it managed to make slightly sub-par material like "Lucky Terror" work just a bit better than it should have.
The film begins with some guy being chased by a gang--but you and Hoot have no idea why. The man meets up with Hoot and 'borrows' Hoot's horse--but soon has an accident and falls to his death. Hoot goes to take a look and finds gold!
In the next scene, Hoot joins up with a traveling medicine show--and his job is entertaining the boobs with his trick shooting. Soon, however, he learns that the dead man at the beginning of the film owned the mine and some baddies were trying to steal it. He also realized that the nice lady in the medicine show is his daughter. So, Hoot sticks around to make sure niceness prevails. Or, at least he sticks around until it looks as if the law is about to convict him of this murder--when he takes off to prove his innocence, help the lady get her claim and rounds up the baddies--with a lot of help, incidentally.
At one point in the movie, one of the baddies says '...possession is 9/10 of the law...'. While I have heard this sort of stuff before, it is NOT true and possessing something when someone else owns the deed is clearly against the law. Obviously this guy was no lawyer!
Overall, this is another amiable but slight Hoot Gibson film. It's not nearly among his best but is pretty typical of the quickies he was making at the time. Reasonably entertaining but nothing more.
The film begins with some guy being chased by a gang--but you and Hoot have no idea why. The man meets up with Hoot and 'borrows' Hoot's horse--but soon has an accident and falls to his death. Hoot goes to take a look and finds gold!
In the next scene, Hoot joins up with a traveling medicine show--and his job is entertaining the boobs with his trick shooting. Soon, however, he learns that the dead man at the beginning of the film owned the mine and some baddies were trying to steal it. He also realized that the nice lady in the medicine show is his daughter. So, Hoot sticks around to make sure niceness prevails. Or, at least he sticks around until it looks as if the law is about to convict him of this murder--when he takes off to prove his innocence, help the lady get her claim and rounds up the baddies--with a lot of help, incidentally.
At one point in the movie, one of the baddies says '...possession is 9/10 of the law...'. While I have heard this sort of stuff before, it is NOT true and possessing something when someone else owns the deed is clearly against the law. Obviously this guy was no lawyer!
Overall, this is another amiable but slight Hoot Gibson film. It's not nearly among his best but is pretty typical of the quickies he was making at the time. Reasonably entertaining but nothing more.
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- planktonrules
- Jul 30, 2014
Details
- Runtime1 hour 1 minute
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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