Wednesday, February 27, 2019

The Cowboy and the Bandit (1935)

Although not that original this is a decent Western B-movie. Bill (Rex Lease) starts off the film facing a lynching for buying a stolen horse, he is saved by local outlaw Scarface (Richard Alexander) and heads off for another state. There he bumps into a farm, the Bar X ranch, in trouble with the Larkin gang.

He takes a job with the farm but finds Larkin has the local law in his pocket, soon Bill finds himself with another lynch mob after him...

Bill is so straight forward and heroic he is almost a parody but he does a good role in this film, it's not a film with much in the way of shades of grey just good solid cowboy action. Blanche Mehaffey plays the sassy love interest at the saloon. Bobby Nelson plays the spirited kid who helps out Bill.