Release Year: 1943
Release Date: Fri Apr 30 1943
Runtime: 196 minutes
Filmed In Black And White
Genre: Drama, Western
Filming Locations: Alabama Hills, Lone Pine
Studio: Republic
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Actors: Nora Bush (as Townswoman), Ed Cassidy (as Worker), Edmund Cobb (as Ed), Tex Cooper (as Townsman Tipping Hat), Babe DeFreest (as Townswoman), Art Dillard (as Indian), Warren Fiske (as Indian), Clem Fuller (as Townsman), Augie Gomez (as Indian Scalper), Duke Green (as Henry /Sniper /Dave /Indian Rustler /Indian /Trail Heavy), Ray Jones (as Barn Henchman), Tom London (as Miller), Pierce Lyden (as Citizen), George Magrill (as Citizen), Chief Many Treaties (as Blue Eagle), Carl Mathews (as Townsman), Frank McCarroll (as Gulch Heavy), Bob McElroy (as Townsman), Jack O’Shea (as Red Gulch Citizen), Eddie Parker (as Attacker /Jim /Indian Rustler /Rock Heavy /Monk Mason), George Pembroke (as Powers), George Plues (as Citizen), Allen Pomeroy (as Roustabout /Bartender Assistant), Herbert Rawlinson (as T.M. Sawyer), Rodd Redwing (as Indian), Bob Reeves (as Townsman), Jay Silverheels (as Kiaga), George Sky Eagle (as Indian), Tom Smith (as Townsman), Charles Soldani (as Indian), George Sowards (as Indian), Tom Steele (as Marker /Cave Heavy), Al Taylor (as Citizen), Ken Terrell (as Bartender), Byron Topetchy (as Indian), Crane Whitley (as Maxwell), Bill Yrigoyen (as Blackie /Indian /Indian Rustler /Trail Heavy), Joe Yrigoyen (as Bill /Guard /Indian Rustler /Barn Heavy)
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Plot: Foster (Charles Miller (IV)’, owner of the local stagecoach line in Canyon City in the 1880s, has received a Federal Franchise Commission grant and is rushing to complete a new road through the lawless Comanche Strip with the aid of his daughter, June (Kay Aldridge), and his construction foreman “Red” Kelly (Eddie Acuff). Unbeknownst to them, their supposed friend, land-and-cattle dealer Martin Dexter (Robert Frazer), and the town lawyer, Silas Higby (Ted Adams), have plans of their own; should Foster’s road see completion, homesteaders would occupy the strip and ruin Dexter’s plans to buy the 500,000 acres for cattle-grazing land. Dester hires a band of renegade Indians to attack the road crew. Indian scout Jim Brady (Budd Buster)sees a supply wagon driver by “Red” and June being cased by the renegades, alerts the work-camp crew and then rides to summon Captain Duke Cameron (Allan Lane) and his U.S. Cavalry troop but, before they arrive, Foster has been killed along with many of his workmen. Cameron, a long-time friend of the Foster family, later requests his commanding officer, Colonel Andrews (Stanley Andrews) for a furlough to aid June in continuing her father’s project. He then seeks to find out who is behind the renegade attack and, eleven cliffhangers later does so in the final chapter of this 12-chapter serial.
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Sources: Museum Of Western Film History Archives, IMDb, JustWatch