Death Rides the Plains

May. 06,1943      NR
Rating:
6.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A couple of crooks have repeatedly sold the Circle C Ranch to unsuspecting buyers, whom they summarily rob and kill before signing the papers. Enter Fuzzy Jones, whose cousin Luke was one of the unlucky would-be ranchers, and Rocky Cameron who goes undercover as a fellow outlaw to catch the murderers.

Robert Livingston as  Rocky Cameron
Al St. John as  Fuzzy Q. Jones
Patti McCarty as  Virginia Marshall
Ray Bennett as  Ben Gowdey
I. Stanford Jolley as  Rogan
George Chesebro as  Trent
John Elliott as  James Marshall
Kermit Maynard as  Jed
Slim Whitaker as  Sheriff
Karl Hackett as  Edward Simms

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Reviews

TrueHello
1943/05/06

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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Bea Swanson
1943/05/07

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

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Kirandeep Yoder
1943/05/08

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

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Ella-May O'Brien
1943/05/09

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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Mike-764
1943/05/10

Ben Gowdey is running a scheme where he is selling a ranch for a ridiculous sum, and when people come to buy the ranch, they are ambushed, killed, and have their money stolen by Gowdey's gun hands. Fuzzy comes to the ranch, after he learns that his cousin Luke purchased it, but when he arrives, he's told by Gowdey's men that they never heard of a Luke Jones. Meanwhile, another prospective buyer, Marshall, is ambushed by Gowdey's men, but is saved by the Lone Rider before he can be finished off. Marshall has his daughter, Virginia, come to town with the money and arranges it to be kept with the Lone Rider for safe keeping, but later Marshall is murdered by a henchman of Gowdey's and the blame is placed on the Lone Rider's identity, Rocky Cameron and Fuzzy. The only way to save themselves is to prevent the next buyer from falling into Gowdey's trap. An OK B-western with an pretty good plot for PRC. Much of the film is saved Fuzzy St. John's antics (like many other PRC productions)and the rest of the cast and production are nothing to rave about. Always find it strange, that Livingston spends more time as Rocky rather than the Lone Rider, but I'm not complaining. Rating, based on b-westerns, 5.

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