4/10
"I was just shooting a skunk"
30 December 2011
Cyclone Of The Saddle has hero and army officer Rex Lease going undercover as a wagon train scout to find out who's been stirring up the Indians. As usual it's a pair of no good white renegades played by perennial western villain George Chesebro and legendary stunt rider Yakima Canutt wielding one mean whip.

They've got to be a pair of the dumbest villains ever since the two both bungle into situations they don't have to and never know when to cut their losses. The last bungle was Canutt kidnapping young Bobby Nelson and bringing him to the Indian camp. In real life they would have just killed the kid, but this was Hollywood under the Code and even with no Code the audience for a B western like this would not go for the killing of a kid. After they were the ones watching films like these on Saturday matinée.

In addition Chesebro's got the hots for lovely heroine Janet Chandler, sister to Nelson. The kid has a steady eye and nicks Chesebro with a bullet when he tries to get too friendly.

Cyclone Of The Saddle is downgraded to a tropical storm.
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