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- Gene Autry
- (archive footage)
- Little Beaver
- (archive footage)
- Hopalong Cassidy
- (archive footage)
- Smiley
- (archive footage)
Storyline
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- TriviaFilm historian Packy Smith and director Richard Patterson created this western spoof by cobbling together clips from over 75 B-western films into a new film where 25 of the greatest sagebrush heroes were called to battle scores of crooks and henchmen and protect the lives of property of peaceful ranchers and their beautiful daughters.
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Prologue Narrator: Many stories have been told of the lawlessness of the Western frontier, but none can match the plight of Peaceful Valley where outlaw gangs robbed and murdered with impunity. Horse thieves and cattle rustlers drove hard-working ranchers into bankruptcy and night riders terrorized innocent homesteaders. Lurking behind all this violence was a mysterious figure known to some as "The Rattler". His cunning disguises enabled him to conceal his true identity even from the men working for him. While his masked riders vandalized the countryside, the town was in the grip of his syndicate of bankers and businessmen. Except for the few ranches run by honest cattlemen or their daughters, the entire valley was a dangerous no-man's land filled with ambushers and lynch mobs. The situation seemed hopeless and, indeed, would have been had not the federal government sent the 25 best lawmen in the West. They came in one at a time. Some were easily spotted by their white horse and distinctive hat, but most chose to travel incognito, using assumed names and sometimes even posing as outlaws. It is to these fearless lawmen, their loyal sidekicks and the women of the valley who trusted them that our story is dedicated.
- ConnectionsEdited from The Hard Hombre (1931)
- SoundtracksRiding Down the Canyon
(uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette
Sung by Gene Autry
** 1/2 (out of 4)
This here is a rather interesting tribute to the countless "B" Westerns that were so popular back in the day. The gimmick of this film by Robert Patterson is that he took clips from dozens of movies and edited them together into one movie so that the various cowboy heroes of the past could be in one movie, working together to get the bad guys.
John Wayne, Rex Allen, Gene Autry, Don Barry, William Boyd, Johnny Mack Brown, Buster Crabbe, Eddie Dean, Hoot Gibson, Tim Holt and Monte Hale are just some of the stars that are show here and we also get some famous sidekicks too.
MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH is a film that I respected more than I really enjoyed. I say that because it was pretty fascinating seeing them do a Frankenstein type of picture meaning that they took clips from dozens of other movies and made their own out of them. There's some new narration that is meant to help us know what's going on and I thought this was an interesting way to tell a story.
With that said, the film simply doesn't work because the footage is obviously from different movies and it just never really flows as one movie. Again, on a technical level I thought they did a good job but it was just impossible to really get a flow to the picture when you know you're watching one movie this second and then another the next. The gimmick was an interesting one but I just don't think it fully worked in the end.
I will say that fans of these "B" movies will want to check it out as a curio but that's about it.
- Michael_Elliott
- Aug 13, 2018
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- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
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