Not so much bad as just dull and poorly made, this Z grade Western features unemotional performances and a script that often feels like a pile of Western scripts got jumbled together and the secretary didn't take time to put them back together properly. Bob Steele, a popular star among western fans (even today), is embarrassingly bad as the wandering cowboy who somehow ends up in a range war between sheep farmers and cow herders. Pretty lame overall, it features a feisty performance by Claire Rochelle, but other than her, it's not worthy past the usual action, gunfights and stereotypes. A lot of padding seems to have been done to stretch this to feature length, and the version that I saw was nearly a reel shorter than the full length version.
Review of Riders of the Sage
Riders of the Sage
(1939)
Oh the farmer and the cowman should be friends....
9 December 2017
Warning: Spoilers