Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Cowboy Holiday (1934)

An adequate yet unexceptional Western. Buck (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams) is a cowboy travelling across the range on holiday, after a slightly strange encounter involving a friend cowboy in a dress and some spanking, he arrives at the home of another friend of his, the Sheriff (John Elliot). Buck learns that the Sheriff is under pressure to bring in the Juarez Kid (Julian Riviero) or lose his job.



However, the Juarez Kid is another friend of Buck and he doesn't think the Kid is guilty. He decides to help the Sheriff and find out who is really doing all the stealing.

So pretty familiar stuff, including a budding romance with a rancher's daughter (Janet Chandler) of course. Unfortunately the film is rather flat and lifeless with some questionable execution. A more charismatic lead would have helped a lot to elevate the material, as it is the film is reasonably competent but no more.