An updated western, with motorcars and suits, a gangster movie with a western pretext, about weapons smugglers; McCoy's impersonation of a Hispanic is funnier than his 1st avatar as a marksman, but not very good, only funnier, not really what this player had presumably best to offer, and this oddity gained some appreciation. Byrd has a supporting role, ending with a lousy scene of murder on stage, which perhaps would of satisfied the children in the audience.
The movie even has some kind of a pre-code joke about women's curiosity.
Shaw's scenes are funny, the only good acting belongs to him, and the intro, with the county line and its crossing, has to be one of the better things this director, for whom a honorable mediocrity should of been an ideal, ever filmed; afterward, there are only lowbrow gags with drunks, unfortunately the medicine swindler is dropped, expended. Ross, the undercover guy, needs the job, but also sympathizes the crook.
In this movie, an undercover agent impersonates 1st a cowboy and a hired marksman in a traveling show, then a Mexican; it's not the player who impersonates a Mexican, but his character does, making it a 2nd degree impersonation (a player pretends to be an undercover agent who pretends to be a Mexican horseman).
So, I would of liked to rate this movie as mediocre.
The leading player looks odd as a Mexican, but the movie is silly and awkward. The director, as I have (more than once) implied, was a disgrace to the trade.
The movie even has some kind of a pre-code joke about women's curiosity.
Shaw's scenes are funny, the only good acting belongs to him, and the intro, with the county line and its crossing, has to be one of the better things this director, for whom a honorable mediocrity should of been an ideal, ever filmed; afterward, there are only lowbrow gags with drunks, unfortunately the medicine swindler is dropped, expended. Ross, the undercover guy, needs the job, but also sympathizes the crook.
In this movie, an undercover agent impersonates 1st a cowboy and a hired marksman in a traveling show, then a Mexican; it's not the player who impersonates a Mexican, but his character does, making it a 2nd degree impersonation (a player pretends to be an undercover agent who pretends to be a Mexican horseman).
So, I would of liked to rate this movie as mediocre.
The leading player looks odd as a Mexican, but the movie is silly and awkward. The director, as I have (more than once) implied, was a disgrace to the trade.