The Cowboy Star (1936)

The Cowboy Star: Directed by David Selman. With Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Si Jenks, Marc Lawrence. Tired of being a cowboy movie star, Yorke quits the movies and buys a ranch so he can be a real cowboy. But just as in his films trouble arrives. This time it’s bank robber Sampson and his two cronies.

“Not that Charles Starrett in the film and real life wasnu0026#39;t making a good living using both, but The Cowboy Star casts Starrett as a movie cowboy who was once a real cowboy before being spotted by a Hollywood producer. As heu0026#39;s about to sign with his picture company again, Starrett refuses telling all that he just wants to get back to being a real cowboy without the celebrity trappings. So he and real sidekick Si Jenks pull out and head for an obscure part of Arizona to buy a ranch. All under assumed aliases.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe future Durango Kid and Jenks get themselves involved with the local manhunt of three public enemies, the baddest of them played by Marc Lawrence. And Starrett gets involved with Iris Meredith who has a hero worshiping little brother Wally Albright who knows Starrett is his cowboy hero and not some nobody.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe Cowboy Star was a nice idea, but it went astray like some maverick. You will not believe how stupid these Most Wanteds are and how a kid pulls the wool over their eyes.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eStill Iu0026#39;m sure the Saturday matinée crowd enjoyed this in 1936.”