Thursday, July 11, 2019

Terror of the Plains (1934)

Tom (Tom Tyler) learns that his Dad (Ralph Lewis) has been framed for a crime he didn't commit. The real culprit is Cramer (William Gould) who has a ghost town as a hideout which he rules with an iron fist. Tom infiltrates the town posing as an outlaw. Very quickly he gets into a number of fights including with Cramer in which he wins Cramer's reluctant woman (Roberta Gale) in marriage!

Things gets complicated when Tom's sidekick Banty (Frank Rice) gets captured by the gang and faces a court martial...

Not a bad little western with some good fights. Tom Tyler looks suitably butch as the tough hero (which wasn't always the case with the heroes in westerns). The rather interesting premise of a secret town used as a hide out could have been made more of.