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5.3/10 • 19

1935-08-191h 1m

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ROMANCE RIDES THE PLAINS!

Ballard's trail jumpers attack the Wyatt Company wagon train, killing young John's parents and kidnaping his brother, Jim. In post-Civil War California, John Wyatt, now a man, pulls together a vigilante posse, The Singing Riders, who all ride white horses, dress alike, and ride the trails singing and rounding up outlaw gangs. Meanwhile, John is ever on the lookout for the gang that murdered his parents As a youngster John Wyatt saw his parents killed and his brother kidnapped. On a wagon train heading West he meets his brother who is now a spy for the gang which originally did the dirty work. He and his brother both fall for Mary Gordon When Ballard and his men attack the Wyatt wagon train, they kill all except two young brothers. Twelve years later one brother John has organized a vigilante group. The other brother Jim is now part of Ballard's gang and the two are destined to meet again

Directors
Robert N. Bradbury
Editors
Carl Pierson

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  1. John Wayne

    John Wayne

    John Wyatt

  2. Sheila Bromley

    Sheila Bromley

    Mary Gordon

  3. Frank McGlynn Jr.

    Frank McGlynn Jr.

    Jim Wyatt

  4. Jim Farley

    Jim Farley

    Lafe Gordon

  5. Bradley Metcalfe

    Bradley Metcalfe

    John Wyatt as a Child

  6. Dickie Jones

    Dickie Jones

    Jim Wyatt as a Child

  7. Mary MacLaren

    Mary MacLaren

    Ma Wyatt

  8. Hank Bell

    Hank Bell

    Mark Wyatt

  9. Glenn Strange

    Glenn Strange

    Carter

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CinemaSerf

Jun 19, 2022

5/10

This short feature sees John Wayne as the troubled "Wyatt" - a man who, as a young boy, watched his parents gunned down and is brother "Jim" (Frank McGlynn Jnr.) kidnapped. Spool on fifteen years or so and the two brothers encounter each other on a wagon train. It seem the brother has joined up with the dirty varmints who killed their folks and is now eyeing up the valuables! Sheila Bromley provides the love interest for both men, so a little gun totin' love triangle ensues as this film follows a rather formulaic trail... The one thing that does differentiate it is ... singing... Yep, Wayne's gang are quite happy to sit by the side of the road and burst into song just before, or after, they engage in their good deeds. Luckily, we don't get this too often - not because it is so very bad, but because it really slows the pace down as surely as an ad break would. Plenty of fun fisticuffs but essentially just one for fans of the Duke, otherwise instantly forgettable fayre.

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Original Language
English
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