User Reviews

I suppose it's just the luck of the draw, but Alpha seem to have an odd habit of hiding their better movies as extras and promoting the lesser film as the main attraction. Wild Horse Round-Up (sic) is a case in point. The better film on the disc is easily Timber War. That too is also somewhat removed from perfect entertainment but at least it's aimed at adults, not kids! In this one, young Dickie Jones shares a large part of the footage. And so also does Betty Lloyd (actually Beth Marion who played the female lead in no less than eight "B" movies in 1936 and no doubt reasoned that a change in name might be helpful to her career. It wasn't! Two movies later, she married stuntman Cliff Lyons and retired from movies completely, except for a walk-on in 1955's Ain't Misbehavin'). Anyway, good guy, Kermit Maynard, is more than somewhat subdued in this one – and no wonder. Not only is he playing second fiddle to Dickie Jones, but often deferring to heroine Betty Lloyd as well. The plot is a familiar "B" western standby and no attempt is made to dress it up or even use it as a tool for some real action. This film is played, produced and directed in a minor key from start to finish and is a big disappointment for fans of director Alvin J. Nietz (here hiding under the pseudonym, "Alan James"), who does nothing whatever to draw an audience's interest in the tame, overly familiar plot..