Tuesday, December 24, 2019

The Law of 45's (1935)

A fairly standard B-movie western that doesn't really get out of second gear (or as it is a western we should say a slow trot). Sir Henry Sheffield (Broderick O'Farrell) turns up from England to survey the area and buy up some land. Crooked lawyer Rontell (Ted Adams) kidnaps Sir Henry and then uses his money to buy up the land of ranchers driven off the land by a mysterious band of hoodlums.

Naturally a couple of good guys passing through get drawn into the fray, even more naturally that a pretty girl is involved in the form of Joan (Molly O'Day). Those guys are Tucson (Guinn Williams) and Al (Stoney Martin) and they save the day...

So the story is standard and the acting is nothing special. Although a short film its padded out a bit with plenty of horse riding. Guinn "Big Boy" Williams puts on a pretty decent turn but there isn't a lot else to elevate this film much above mediocre.