Johnny Mack Brown (Billy Donovan), Sheila Mannors (Jean Halloran), Karl Hackett (Tom Jackson), Ted Adams (Sal-izar), Hal Price (Jim Day), Nelson McDowell (Doc Simpson), Charles King (Dan), Forrest Taylor, Frank Ball.
Director: S. ROY LUBY. Screenplay: Earle Snell. Story: E.B. Mann. Photography: Bert Longenecker. Film editor: Roy Claire. Production manager: Jerome S. Bresler. Assistant director: Harry S. Knight. Sound recording: Corson Jowett. Producer: A. W. Hackel. Supreme Pictures. Executive producer: William Steiner.
Not copyrighted by Supreme Pictures Corp. No New York opening. U.S. release: 10 March 1936. 63 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A mysterious marksman is killing hands and rustling stock on Jean Halloran's AA Ranch.
NOTES: Said to be a re-make of "The Night Rider" (1932).
COMMENT: A most entertaining and suspenseful mystery, realized on a large budget by a highly competent — with two exceptions — group of players. Miss Mannors is the odd-girl-out, but with her looks, who cares?
Nelson McDowell seems to think that his — mercifully brief — comic role as an addled veterinarian calls for a Harry Todd impersonation. BUT otherwise, the acting is ingratiatingly solid with Brown in his element as the polite-as-pie ammunition salesman who hires out as a phantom-buster to the attractive heroine.
We also especially admired Karl Hackett's skillful interpretation of the is-he or isn't-he-the-phantom step-dad.
The sets are quite elaborate by "B" standards and director Luby, a former editor, knows how to use them to stage the action so that it deliver with both pace and excitement.
P.S. It seems that IMDb has rarely struck the word, "isn't"! Where I live, it's one of the most common words in the local vocabulary. "Isn't it ever going to rain?"
Director: S. ROY LUBY. Screenplay: Earle Snell. Story: E.B. Mann. Photography: Bert Longenecker. Film editor: Roy Claire. Production manager: Jerome S. Bresler. Assistant director: Harry S. Knight. Sound recording: Corson Jowett. Producer: A. W. Hackel. Supreme Pictures. Executive producer: William Steiner.
Not copyrighted by Supreme Pictures Corp. No New York opening. U.S. release: 10 March 1936. 63 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A mysterious marksman is killing hands and rustling stock on Jean Halloran's AA Ranch.
NOTES: Said to be a re-make of "The Night Rider" (1932).
COMMENT: A most entertaining and suspenseful mystery, realized on a large budget by a highly competent — with two exceptions — group of players. Miss Mannors is the odd-girl-out, but with her looks, who cares?
Nelson McDowell seems to think that his — mercifully brief — comic role as an addled veterinarian calls for a Harry Todd impersonation. BUT otherwise, the acting is ingratiatingly solid with Brown in his element as the polite-as-pie ammunition salesman who hires out as a phantom-buster to the attractive heroine.
We also especially admired Karl Hackett's skillful interpretation of the is-he or isn't-he-the-phantom step-dad.
The sets are quite elaborate by "B" standards and director Luby, a former editor, knows how to use them to stage the action so that it deliver with both pace and excitement.
P.S. It seems that IMDb has rarely struck the word, "isn't"! Where I live, it's one of the most common words in the local vocabulary. "Isn't it ever going to rain?"