mccrohan Review of Law of the Rio Grande

Law of the Rio Grande (1931)

this movie and many other B films were enjoyed by many people

[8/10 · 11 February 2006]

It was made in 1931 and this was right in the middle of the terrible years of the Great Depression. Thousands of cinemas closed and many that were left could only afford the cheap B films. Often such cinemas were described as " flea pits" but to the millions of unemployed adults and their children , this was their only chance to escape their daily misery and for a few hours escape in the world of movie make-believe. I believe that many would have preferred "The Law of the Rio Grande" to many of the big-budget films offered by the big studios.Just look at the 1931 offerings by MGM.Paramount which are set in a world alien to the unemployed Americans of that era. At any rate, children attending the Saturday afternoon shows would have have love ""Rio Grand" and similar movies