This is a satisfying Rocky Lane picture, with an unusually off-beat B-western story and a sparkling cast of familiar ranch-hands doing their serious best to do right by the program. Eddy Waller always is watchable when sidekicking with Rocky Lane, but he really shines through here. Even though home base for the doings in this film is a spook-inflected stage station a long way from anywhere, this film really could best be termed an "action picture." B-westerns of the 1940s were generally longer on horseback chases, gun battles, and fisticuffs than were their 1930s ancestors, and this 1948 release has plenty of all three elements. The culminating stagecoach chase, although why it had to happen is curious, is really something special; everyone connected with the chase's production and presentation should have been proud about the screened result. There is little to find fault with in this adventure, and overall it makes for a fun diversion.
Review of Marshal of Amarillo
