If I knew how many Ace of Spades were going to show up in the story I would have kept count. They were all over the place, and as far as I can recall, card cheat Pecos Kid (Rex Lease) only had one fixed deck.
You know, once the picture was over and I began thinking about it, I couldn't come up with a central plot element that made the story work. Breed Hawkins (John Merton) never delivered the letter to Marshal Bill Carson (Tim McCoy) requesting he name his own ticket to be sheriff of San Jacinto. Carson, for his part, ordered Pecos Kid out of Blue Gap, even though they had some connection in the past and Carson liked him personally. That pretty much sums it up for me, but then for some reason, Carson decided to follow Pecos, not knowing he was headed for San Jacinto. My question then is, what would have been the point of that? Pecos wasn't going anywhere in particular until Breed Hawkins enticed him with a gambling proposition. But to my mind, there was no particular reason I can think of for Carson to follow The Kid in the first place since he just ran him out of town. Am I missing something?
Here's something else that wasn't thought through very well - when Silent Tom Rand (Harry Worth) has that 'Vertigo' style flashback, he envisions his brother (who happens to be the Pecos Kid) being hung by the sheriff's posse, just the way it happened. But he wasn't there! I recall a similar scene in a 1961 sci-fi flick, "The Phantom Planet". It makes me wonder why it never struck the film makers that you can't have a memory of something that you didn't experience - very baffling.
I'll give the picture a bonus point though for the creative ending in which Silent Tom paid for his role in avenging his brother's death. You knew that Marshal Lightnin' would have to go after him, but the kicker was that Tom had emptied his six-gun. It seemed to me that Carson didn't feel all that bad about it.
You know, once the picture was over and I began thinking about it, I couldn't come up with a central plot element that made the story work. Breed Hawkins (John Merton) never delivered the letter to Marshal Bill Carson (Tim McCoy) requesting he name his own ticket to be sheriff of San Jacinto. Carson, for his part, ordered Pecos Kid out of Blue Gap, even though they had some connection in the past and Carson liked him personally. That pretty much sums it up for me, but then for some reason, Carson decided to follow Pecos, not knowing he was headed for San Jacinto. My question then is, what would have been the point of that? Pecos wasn't going anywhere in particular until Breed Hawkins enticed him with a gambling proposition. But to my mind, there was no particular reason I can think of for Carson to follow The Kid in the first place since he just ran him out of town. Am I missing something?
Here's something else that wasn't thought through very well - when Silent Tom Rand (Harry Worth) has that 'Vertigo' style flashback, he envisions his brother (who happens to be the Pecos Kid) being hung by the sheriff's posse, just the way it happened. But he wasn't there! I recall a similar scene in a 1961 sci-fi flick, "The Phantom Planet". It makes me wonder why it never struck the film makers that you can't have a memory of something that you didn't experience - very baffling.
I'll give the picture a bonus point though for the creative ending in which Silent Tom paid for his role in avenging his brother's death. You knew that Marshal Lightnin' would have to go after him, but the kicker was that Tom had emptied his six-gun. It seemed to me that Carson didn't feel all that bad about it.