The Vanishing Outpost (1951)

This series of Lash La Rue "Western Adventure Productions", financed by Southern theatre-owners J. Francis White and Joy Houck, was put together by the husband-wife combo of Ron Ormond and ... See full summary »

Director:

Ron Ormond

Writer:

Alexander White (original screenplay)

Stars:

Lash La Rue, Al St. John, Archie Twitchell

Cast

Cast overview:
Lash La Rue	...	U. S. Marshal 'Lash' LaRue
Al St. John	...	Fuzzy Q. Jones (as 'Fuzzy' St. John)
Archie Twitchell	...	Mack
Sue Hussey	...	Sue (Waitress)
Sharon Hall	...	Nancy Walker
Clarke Stevens	...	Denton, Pinkerton Agent
Riley Hill	...	Walker, Pinkerton Agent
Cliff Taylor	...	1st Bartender
Ted Adams	...	Matt, Phony Pinkerton Agent
Ray Broome	...	Matt's Assistant
Bud Osborne	...	Henchman Rufe
Lee Morgan	...	Lou (Outlaw Gang Leader)
Ray Jones	...	Barfly
Ned Roberts
Curtice Rutledge

Storyline

This series of Lash La Rue "Western Adventure Productions", financed by Southern theatre-owners J. Francis White and Joy Houck, was put together by the husband-wife combo of Ron Ormond and June Carr with much use of stock footage from the Lash LaRue series they had made for Screen Guild distribution a few years earlier(hence the frequent references and use of the town name Rhyolite), and is primarily a confused mish-mash of new footage incorporated with footage from other La Rue films, to the extent that they even cannibalized footage from Western Adventure films before they were through. This one features a prolonged saloon encounter between Fuzzy and a saloon tough, The Bad Hombre(Archie Twitchell), who is picking on a quiet character, Walker (Riley Hill), before Lash comes to the rescue. Walker is an undercover Pinkerton Agent and gets Lash and Fuzzy involved in cleaning up the Taggert (stock footage)/Jackson (new footage) gang, and employs an element(new footage) of the gang using...

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Plot Keywords:

saloon | stock footage | pinkerton agent | lawman | jail | 

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Taglines:

LASH DECODES A LETTER...AND WINDS UP IN THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE!

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Western

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 November 1951 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mit Peitsche und Pistole

Company Credits

Production Co:

Western Adventures Productions Inc.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

56 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Did You Know?

Trivia

More than half of the film consists of scenes cuts from Son of Billy the Kid, Son of a Badman, Outlaw Country and Mark of the Lash.

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Goofs

When Marshal Lash LaRue slugs a saloon thug (played by Archie Twitchell) in a opening barroom scene, the bad guy's hat falls off. But when we see him reeling from the punch against the wall, the hat has reappeared on his head.

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Connections

Features Mark of the Lash (1948)

User Reviews

A jigsaw puzzle of Lash films in one.

Lash LaRue, the black-clad King of the Western Bull-whip appears in this film compiled from a series of edited earlier films, with some new footage thrown in as an afterthought ! LaRue, with the aid of comical second banana Fuzzy St. John, cleans up a corrupt group of dastardly scalawags.

By this time in his career, LaRue's films had fallen victim to abysmally low budgets and stale, recycled plots. This film is one of his worst, of interest to fans and movie historians only.

The original, 1940's versions compiled here are superior and viewers should beware of this hodge-podge of earlier shoot-em ups.