Buddy Roosevelt (Dick Taylor), Francis Morris (Mary Ross), Sam Pierce (Tom Ross), Fay McKenzie (Sally Nolan), Lafe McKee (Nolan), George Chesebro (Kirns), Clyde McCalary (Tubby), Merrill McCormick (Pete Larkin), Allen Holbrook (Slim), Eva McKenzie (Mrs Wilson), Bud Osborne (sheriff), Denver Dixon.
Director: DENVER DIXON (Victor Adamson). Screenplay: Betty Burbridge. Film editor: Frances Burroughs. Photography: Brydon Baker. Art director: Jack Cook. Producer: Denver Dixon.
Not copyrighted by California Motion Picture Enterprises. U.S. release through Superior Talking Pictures in 1934. 51 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: The story jumps all over the place, but, as near as I can figure it out, it concerns a professional cattle rustler (ace villain George Chesebro), who, the better to ply his trade, hires himself out as ranch foreman to the gormless brother (Sam Pierce) of the mousy heroine (Francis Morris). Mind you, we are not even sure until the picture is half over that Miss Morris is the heroine. Up to that point, that role is ably filled by the flamboyant Fay McKenzie. However, the script changes heroines in mid-stride, replacing the domestic comedy of the first half with a fair amount of typical western action in the second.
COMMENT: Directed by top stuntman Denver Dixon, "Boss Cowboy" is an interesting but (except for some really fabulous stunts) thoroughly incompetent little western (even the credit titles are hilariously misspelled) that yet offers a great deal of both deliberate and unintentional entertainment.
The once highly popular silent cowboy star Buddy Roosevelt proves to possess a pleasant voice (but with the wrong accent. He's obviously no westerner). Presumably, the movie's budget allowed for one or two day trips to real locations, but didn't run to the hire of a movieola (or editing machine).
Miss Burroughs has seemingly chopped up lengths of film at random and then simply spliced them together.
Director: DENVER DIXON (Victor Adamson). Screenplay: Betty Burbridge. Film editor: Frances Burroughs. Photography: Brydon Baker. Art director: Jack Cook. Producer: Denver Dixon.
Not copyrighted by California Motion Picture Enterprises. U.S. release through Superior Talking Pictures in 1934. 51 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: The story jumps all over the place, but, as near as I can figure it out, it concerns a professional cattle rustler (ace villain George Chesebro), who, the better to ply his trade, hires himself out as ranch foreman to the gormless brother (Sam Pierce) of the mousy heroine (Francis Morris). Mind you, we are not even sure until the picture is half over that Miss Morris is the heroine. Up to that point, that role is ably filled by the flamboyant Fay McKenzie. However, the script changes heroines in mid-stride, replacing the domestic comedy of the first half with a fair amount of typical western action in the second.
COMMENT: Directed by top stuntman Denver Dixon, "Boss Cowboy" is an interesting but (except for some really fabulous stunts) thoroughly incompetent little western (even the credit titles are hilariously misspelled) that yet offers a great deal of both deliberate and unintentional entertainment.
The once highly popular silent cowboy star Buddy Roosevelt proves to possess a pleasant voice (but with the wrong accent. He's obviously no westerner). Presumably, the movie's budget allowed for one or two day trips to real locations, but didn't run to the hire of a movieola (or editing machine).
Miss Burroughs has seemingly chopped up lengths of film at random and then simply spliced them together.
