Jack Mower is 'Hurricane Hal'. After he saves ranch-owner Ed Bowman from being robbed., he gets a job at the ranch, where he and Bowman's daughter, Alma Rayford, are sweet on each other. Top hand Bud Osborne is jealous of him. Comes time to send money to buy a new herd, Bowman sends Osborne with the money. Miss Rayford tags along, and Mower is sent to trail the two of them. Of course, there are dirty workings afoot....
The direction by John P. McCarthy is simple, and the story, basic as it is, rushes along in 45 minutes. This was a Gower Gulch movie, and there's little to it but riding, shooting and the occasional fight. While all of the majors had their own cowboy stars, and comparatively lavish productions, westerns long remained the cheapest of genres to produce, and states right distributors long offered their producers pre-production financing that made them reasonably profitable. Of course, with the coming of sound, the complexity of shooting would increase enormously, but this was an era when hopeful men and women, in front of and behind the cameras, could get a foot in the door, hoping it would,lead somewhere else.
It never did for any of the cast or crew of this movie, although it could provide a steady living. Bud Osborne appeared in more than 500 features through 1959. When they needed an actor who could handle a team of horses, Osborne was their first choice. He died in 1964, aged 79.
The direction by John P. McCarthy is simple, and the story, basic as it is, rushes along in 45 minutes. This was a Gower Gulch movie, and there's little to it but riding, shooting and the occasional fight. While all of the majors had their own cowboy stars, and comparatively lavish productions, westerns long remained the cheapest of genres to produce, and states right distributors long offered their producers pre-production financing that made them reasonably profitable. Of course, with the coming of sound, the complexity of shooting would increase enormously, but this was an era when hopeful men and women, in front of and behind the cameras, could get a foot in the door, hoping it would,lead somewhere else.
It never did for any of the cast or crew of this movie, although it could provide a steady living. Bud Osborne appeared in more than 500 features through 1959. When they needed an actor who could handle a team of horses, Osborne was their first choice. He died in 1964, aged 79.
