Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Stormy Trails (1936)

A pretty decent Western with a well developed plot.

Tom Storm (Rex Bell) is a rancher who blissfully unaware that devious Stanton (Karl Hackett) knows there is gold on Storm's land. Stanton has his henchmen rob the bank, putting pressure on the banker to foreclose on Storm. He also tries to have Storm sued by a disgruntled former cow hand (though Storm shoots him in the robbery). Storm gets involved with the lovely Connie (Lois Wilde) though her Dad (Lloyd Ingraham) is caught stealing gold on Storm's land...

If that enough Stanton also corrupts Storm's younger brother Billy (Bob Terry) though the kid has a change of heart with tragic results...

Ok so the plot is a bit complicated but it works really well, and mostly holds together and makes sense. There is some gunplay and good horsemanship but this is mostly a Western about plot not Colt 45s.