Thursday, May 2, 2024

Tombstone Canyon (1932)

An average Western enlivened by the rather strange Phantom character.


Ken Maynard travels to Tombstone Canyon hoping to find out some more about his past. Unfortunately, a rather strange black masked character called the Phantom is terrorising the ranch of Alf Sykes (Frank Brownlee). Sykes has it in for Ken and tries to get him arrested or killed. Ken begins to investigate why Sykes has it in for him, and who the Phantom is... and why the Phantom is not a danger to him, rather he seems to be protecting him...

Really a fairly mundane Western, though Ken Maynard's real skills of horsemanship are always good to see. The film is given some novelty with the Phantom character, who looks likes he wandered off another film set where they were making a Gothic horror.