The Vanishing Frontier (1932) User Reviews

Sluggish Oater With Unappealing Johnny Mack Brown

[lchadbou-326-26592 · 5/10 · 7 February 2021]

The story of a band of outlaws in the California of the 1850s when there was a military regime deserves more vigorous treatment than it gets here, with the bandit leader played by the unappealing Johnny Mack Brown who makes things worse by putting on a phony Spanish accent. There are a few nice touches though such as the shot of a scaffold glimpsed by his fellow criminals Raymond Hatton and J. Farrell MacDonald,a and the support lent by Zasu Pitts as a flirtatious aunt . This early 30s Paramount turned up at one point in a television package called Stardust Theatre.