mark.waltz Review of The Lawless Frontier

The Lawless Frontier (1934)

Sorry Duke, this is the lifeless frontier.

[2/10 · 11 June 2020]

I am not about to sit through this again to calculate the number of minutes in this hour long film that is sure silence. It was difficult enough once, and I still haven't figured out what the plot was trying to be, just a bunch of good guys and bad guys fighting it out and no real motive. Dares a half-breed, half a patchy, half wife, played by Edward Dwyer with a ridiculous accent since he's pretending to be Mexican. The dialogue sounds like it came from a Dick and Jane first grade primer, and the extended action sequences get very boring after a while. At one point, one of the characters rides through a small Lake and it actually appears like he is actually riding a fish, not a horse by the way he is moving up and down (and side to side). Horses gallop, and fish flop, and if that is a metaphor for the outcome of this film, then that was very appropriate.