In watching this, I couldn't help but think of "Singin' in the Rain" that showed early bad talkies being filmed and everything they did to try and make it better, which often failed. this doesn't fail because it is slow and creaky. This fails because the acting is beyond wretched. It feels like they filmed the first rehearsal and accidentally threw away the film. Fred Church is the son of a local sheriff, impersonating the Apache Kid for no apparent reason, and all of a sudden being told by his father that he can't marry the girl (Josephine Hill) whom he loves, and that his father (who claims not to be his father) is going to marry kill himself. He's a fat old letch who goes out of his way to block Hill and her sister's path, oggling them uncontrollably. In the meantime, the real Apache kid (Jack Perrin) shows up, confronts church and goes out of his way to make things right so church can marry the girl he loves.
This is actually very funny if you watch it with comical intentions, because at times the film speeds up in ridiculous ways and has some very silly looking sequences. There is a scene where the Apache kid literally drives his horse off of a cliff and it seems like it's part of a keystone cops sequence. I'm also glad that they explained that the telephone lines were actually telegraph lines. Another extremely stupid segment is a fight scene where two men are literally wrestling around on a railroad track as a train speeds towards them, and they roll off just in time. They then head to the top of a steep cliff and continue the fight, creating even more silliness. I have to call this one of the funniest westerns since one of John Wayne's B movies where he went over a waterfall hanging onto a stick that look like a broom.
This is actually very funny if you watch it with comical intentions, because at times the film speeds up in ridiculous ways and has some very silly looking sequences. There is a scene where the Apache kid literally drives his horse off of a cliff and it seems like it's part of a keystone cops sequence. I'm also glad that they explained that the telephone lines were actually telegraph lines. Another extremely stupid segment is a fight scene where two men are literally wrestling around on a railroad track as a train speeds towards them, and they roll off just in time. They then head to the top of a steep cliff and continue the fight, creating even more silliness. I have to call this one of the funniest westerns since one of John Wayne's B movies where he went over a waterfall hanging onto a stick that look like a broom.