Charles Starrett wants to join the army to fight tyranny, but the Feds want him and fellow Texas Rangers Russell Hayden and Cliff Edwards to stop spies from stealing cattle in Alaska and running a German submarine (!) station in this lively, exciting and preposterous wartime Northerner.
All the outdoors scenes were shot on the Iverson Ranch in Simi Valley, which had served for outdoor shots for thirty years at this point -- it's hard to say whether this was a convention of film making or an acknowledgment that the audience for these movies were easily fooled. Shirley Patterson is the romantic interest and Cliff Edwards, best known for voicing Jiminy Cricket, offers a couple of songs and some clowning. The movie is fast and fun and the camera work by Benjamin Kline -- who had started by shooting movies for Tom Mix -- is fine.
All the outdoors scenes were shot on the Iverson Ranch in Simi Valley, which had served for outdoor shots for thirty years at this point -- it's hard to say whether this was a convention of film making or an acknowledgment that the audience for these movies were easily fooled. Shirley Patterson is the romantic interest and Cliff Edwards, best known for voicing Jiminy Cricket, offers a couple of songs and some clowning. The movie is fast and fun and the camera work by Benjamin Kline -- who had started by shooting movies for Tom Mix -- is fine.