Randolph Scott (Tod) arrives in town looking for the Dalton family. He comes across them and stays to act as the town lawyer against a Land Development Company who is stealing land from the farmers of the town. Also, one of the Dalton brothers is accused of murder after one of the land developers is accidentally killed in a skirmish. Well, after the court case for the murder charge, the Dalton brothers take off and become outlaws.
This film is strange in that the leading man – Randy – is hardly in the film. This is a film about the four Daltons and their rampages of theft with a love strand thrown in. Kay Francis (Julie), who is second billed, plays the girlfriend of Broderick Crawford (Bob Dalton) and she is also hardly in the film. This is Broderick's film and God knows why he is cast in fifth position! There is a love triangle that is occasionally touched upon between Scott, Crawford and Francis but it is all rather forced. Why not just have a film about the Daltons and cut Scott and Francis from the proceedings? They aren't needed in this film. It doesn't seem respectful to the rest of the cast, who can carry things without the two headliners. I guess the studio just didn't want to take a risk.
Good scenes mainly involve the stunt work – we get horses jumping off a train, a horse jumping off a bridge and a bloke falling from a wagon underneath some horses, going underneath the wagon carriage and climbing up the back of the wagon! Set against this is the poor comedy tone that runs throughout the film. And all that blasted shooting in the end sequence. Nothing much going on with this film really. In fact, as already mentioned, it's particularly insulting to the cast as the two top billed stars aren't really in the film.
This film is strange in that the leading man – Randy – is hardly in the film. This is a film about the four Daltons and their rampages of theft with a love strand thrown in. Kay Francis (Julie), who is second billed, plays the girlfriend of Broderick Crawford (Bob Dalton) and she is also hardly in the film. This is Broderick's film and God knows why he is cast in fifth position! There is a love triangle that is occasionally touched upon between Scott, Crawford and Francis but it is all rather forced. Why not just have a film about the Daltons and cut Scott and Francis from the proceedings? They aren't needed in this film. It doesn't seem respectful to the rest of the cast, who can carry things without the two headliners. I guess the studio just didn't want to take a risk.
Good scenes mainly involve the stunt work – we get horses jumping off a train, a horse jumping off a bridge and a bloke falling from a wagon underneath some horses, going underneath the wagon carriage and climbing up the back of the wagon! Set against this is the poor comedy tone that runs throughout the film. And all that blasted shooting in the end sequence. Nothing much going on with this film really. In fact, as already mentioned, it's particularly insulting to the cast as the two top billed stars aren't really in the film.