Here's a pretty standard B Western with a predictable plot and familiar story line involving crooked businessmen attempting to hoodwink a pair of greenhorn Easterners. How many times do you run into this if you're a fan of these old time Westerns? Personally I can watch them all day, just change out the cowboy hero and some of the bit players and I'm ready to go.
You can pretty quickly put two and two together knowing the title of the picture and the fact that Professor Alonzo Larson (Joel Friedkin) and daughter Anne (Elaine Riley) are heading for their sight unseen, newly purchased, five thousand dollar homestead. Hoppy had it right when he stated my summary line to Lucky Jenkins (Rand Brooks) and California Carlson (Andy Clyde) on the way to inspect the place. The Paradise Ranch would be no paradise, except for the fact that there might be some silver on the property, courtesy of Hoppy's fertile imagination to get the Larsons their money back.
I don't know if it was ever mentioned in any other Cassidy flick, but this time out we learn that California's real name is Clarence, and was tagged with the nickname 'Crazy' when the Professor knew him ages ago. Both of them did look kind of crazy at the wrong end of the butterfly nets chasing mythical 'large lepidoptera'. My best takeaway from the picture however, had to do with those pre-inflation menu items at the Big Dome Saloon. How about ham and eggs for fifty cents, spare rib and kraut or ham hock and beans for sixty cents, or if you really wanted to splurge, go for the steak dinner; it would only set you back a buck. Oh yeah, and if you were around for lunch - it was free! That's one other thing I just love about these old B films, a look at the way things were in times gone by.
Well it doesn't take long for Hoppy to smoke out the land swindle and turn things right for the Larsons. Land agent Bentley (Kenneth MacDonald) and banker Waite (Cliff Clark) are no match for Cassidy's instincts, and he makes short work of the bad guys in just under an hour. When the story was over, I thought about it a minute, and couldn't come up with a good reason for Rand Brooks to be in this one, other than to round out the good guy trio. The guy really didn't have anything to do.
You can pretty quickly put two and two together knowing the title of the picture and the fact that Professor Alonzo Larson (Joel Friedkin) and daughter Anne (Elaine Riley) are heading for their sight unseen, newly purchased, five thousand dollar homestead. Hoppy had it right when he stated my summary line to Lucky Jenkins (Rand Brooks) and California Carlson (Andy Clyde) on the way to inspect the place. The Paradise Ranch would be no paradise, except for the fact that there might be some silver on the property, courtesy of Hoppy's fertile imagination to get the Larsons their money back.
I don't know if it was ever mentioned in any other Cassidy flick, but this time out we learn that California's real name is Clarence, and was tagged with the nickname 'Crazy' when the Professor knew him ages ago. Both of them did look kind of crazy at the wrong end of the butterfly nets chasing mythical 'large lepidoptera'. My best takeaway from the picture however, had to do with those pre-inflation menu items at the Big Dome Saloon. How about ham and eggs for fifty cents, spare rib and kraut or ham hock and beans for sixty cents, or if you really wanted to splurge, go for the steak dinner; it would only set you back a buck. Oh yeah, and if you were around for lunch - it was free! That's one other thing I just love about these old B films, a look at the way things were in times gone by.
Well it doesn't take long for Hoppy to smoke out the land swindle and turn things right for the Larsons. Land agent Bentley (Kenneth MacDonald) and banker Waite (Cliff Clark) are no match for Cassidy's instincts, and he makes short work of the bad guys in just under an hour. When the story was over, I thought about it a minute, and couldn't come up with a good reason for Rand Brooks to be in this one, other than to round out the good guy trio. The guy really didn't have anything to do.