Jack Holt (Rawhide Morgan), Tim Holt (Bob Morgan), Nan Leslie (Laura Butler), Steve Brodie (Quirt Butler), Richard Martin (Chito Rafferty), Paul Hurst (Ben Riddle), Jim Nolan (Nimino Welch), Robert Bray (Jasper Todd), Richard Benedict (Gills), William Phipps (Mac), Harry Harvey (the postman/stagecoach agent), Lane Chandler (Captain McNeil), Herman Hack (Herman, the stage driver), John Daheim (stunt double for Tim Holt).
Director: JOHN RAWLINS. Original screenplay: Norman Houston. Uncredited additional dialogue: Frances Kavanaugh. Photography: J. Roy Hunt. Film editor: Desmond Marquette. Art directors: Albert S. D'Agostino, Charles F. Pyke. Set decorators: Darrell Silvera and Jack Mills. Costumes designed by Adele Balkan. Hair styles: Maudlee McDougall. Make-up: W. Fieldz. Assistant director: John Pommer. Music composed by Paul Sawtell, directed by Constantin Bakaleinikoff. Camera operator: Willard Barth. Grips: Mike Graves, Karl Reed. Stills: Ollie Sigurdson. Script supervisor: Daniel B. Ullman. Sound recording: Garry Harris, Terry Kellum. RCA Sound System. Producer: Herman Schlom.
Copyright 4 April 1948 by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 18 May 1948. Australian release: 26 May 1949 (sic). 5,773 feet. 64 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A gang of rustlers meet their match, despite the fact that their leader is married to the heroine.
PRINCIPAL MIRACLE: It's not often that you get a star combination of father and son playing these roles in the same picture. The only other vintage movie I can remember offhand is Proud Rebel (1958), starring Alan Ladd and David Ladd. I know that Mickey Rooney's dad appeared in many of his movies, but Joe Yule most certainly never had star parts.
COMMENT: Oddly, it's not the Holt-Holt confrontation that makes this entry so interesting, but the skillful performance of Nan Leslie who does wonders with an extremely difficult role, making her torn- between-two-evils-heroine both sympathetic yet understated and expressive.
Otherwise this is a technically competent but more or less routine RKO second feature, featuring the usual shoot-outs and fast riding against the usual scenically picturesque but dusty and cheerless western backgrounds.
Director: JOHN RAWLINS. Original screenplay: Norman Houston. Uncredited additional dialogue: Frances Kavanaugh. Photography: J. Roy Hunt. Film editor: Desmond Marquette. Art directors: Albert S. D'Agostino, Charles F. Pyke. Set decorators: Darrell Silvera and Jack Mills. Costumes designed by Adele Balkan. Hair styles: Maudlee McDougall. Make-up: W. Fieldz. Assistant director: John Pommer. Music composed by Paul Sawtell, directed by Constantin Bakaleinikoff. Camera operator: Willard Barth. Grips: Mike Graves, Karl Reed. Stills: Ollie Sigurdson. Script supervisor: Daniel B. Ullman. Sound recording: Garry Harris, Terry Kellum. RCA Sound System. Producer: Herman Schlom.
Copyright 4 April 1948 by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 18 May 1948. Australian release: 26 May 1949 (sic). 5,773 feet. 64 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A gang of rustlers meet their match, despite the fact that their leader is married to the heroine.
PRINCIPAL MIRACLE: It's not often that you get a star combination of father and son playing these roles in the same picture. The only other vintage movie I can remember offhand is Proud Rebel (1958), starring Alan Ladd and David Ladd. I know that Mickey Rooney's dad appeared in many of his movies, but Joe Yule most certainly never had star parts.
COMMENT: Oddly, it's not the Holt-Holt confrontation that makes this entry so interesting, but the skillful performance of Nan Leslie who does wonders with an extremely difficult role, making her torn- between-two-evils-heroine both sympathetic yet understated and expressive.
Otherwise this is a technically competent but more or less routine RKO second feature, featuring the usual shoot-outs and fast riding against the usual scenically picturesque but dusty and cheerless western backgrounds.