Director: OLIVER DRAKE. Original screenplay: Oliver Drake. Photography: James Brown. Film editor: Ralph Dixon. Settings: Vin Taylor. Music director: Frank Sanucci. Songs: "Rawhide Ray" by Dimitri Tiomkin (music) and Ned Washington (lyrics); "Little Rose of the Rancho" by Ralph Rainger (music) and Leo Robin (music); "Mexican Hat Dance" by Felipe A. Partichela; "Trail to Mexico" by Johnny Lange and Lew Porter. Assistant director: Eddie Davis. Sound recording: Tom Lambert. Western Electric Sound System. Associate producer: Glenn Cook. Producer: Oliver Drake.
Copyright 11 July 1946 by Monogram Pictures Corp. No New York showcase. U.S. release: 29 June 1946. No general theatrical release in the U.K. If the movie was shown in U.K. cinemas - and even that is not certain - it would have been a floating release. Never theatrically released in Australia. 6 reels. 56 minutes.
COMMENT: Director/producer Oliver Drake makes use of an unusually fluid (for him) camera in this one, with running inserts and tracking shots enlivening an otherwise mundane and not particularly exciting story of gold-hijacking in old Mexico.
There's just enough action to satisfy the really sold-out fans. However, despite the running inserts and a nice sample of well-timed stunt-work in which clever film editing makes it appear that Jimmy himself makes the leap from galloping horse to running wagon, the action is not staged in a particularly exciting manner.
There's music and song as well, though none of the songs are particularly memorable and Mr Wakely's delivery of a song is only slightly more wooden than his delivery of dialogue. Still, despite his expressionless demeanor, he is a passable singer. His looks and figure, however, are not what we might expect from a western hero. He is aided as usual by Lee "Lasses" White, a sometimes obnoxious and no more than bearable "comedian" (he is just tolerable in this film).
The support cast is unusually uninteresting. The heroine is a nonentity and is about as appealing as a frog-pond at noon. Indeed the only familiar face in the entire support cast is Terry Frost, though the guy who essays the part of the Texas Kid renders it with a delightfully villainous glumness.
Production values are very ordinary. There's a bit of location shooting but the locations are like the rest of the film, not particularly exciting.
Copyright 11 July 1946 by Monogram Pictures Corp. No New York showcase. U.S. release: 29 June 1946. No general theatrical release in the U.K. If the movie was shown in U.K. cinemas - and even that is not certain - it would have been a floating release. Never theatrically released in Australia. 6 reels. 56 minutes.
COMMENT: Director/producer Oliver Drake makes use of an unusually fluid (for him) camera in this one, with running inserts and tracking shots enlivening an otherwise mundane and not particularly exciting story of gold-hijacking in old Mexico.
There's just enough action to satisfy the really sold-out fans. However, despite the running inserts and a nice sample of well-timed stunt-work in which clever film editing makes it appear that Jimmy himself makes the leap from galloping horse to running wagon, the action is not staged in a particularly exciting manner.
There's music and song as well, though none of the songs are particularly memorable and Mr Wakely's delivery of a song is only slightly more wooden than his delivery of dialogue. Still, despite his expressionless demeanor, he is a passable singer. His looks and figure, however, are not what we might expect from a western hero. He is aided as usual by Lee "Lasses" White, a sometimes obnoxious and no more than bearable "comedian" (he is just tolerable in this film).
The support cast is unusually uninteresting. The heroine is a nonentity and is about as appealing as a frog-pond at noon. Indeed the only familiar face in the entire support cast is Terry Frost, though the guy who essays the part of the Texas Kid renders it with a delightfully villainous glumness.
Production values are very ordinary. There's a bit of location shooting but the locations are like the rest of the film, not particularly exciting.
