Across the Plains (1939)

Across the Plains: Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet. With Jack Randall, Rusty the Horse, Frank Yaconelli, Joyce Bryant. Two brothers separated when young meet as adults, one good and one bad.

“This is the first Jack Randall western Iu0026#39;ve seen, and I must say Iu0026#39;m impressed. You learn not to expect too much from a Monogram picture–and thatu0026#39;s usually what you get–but this one is different. Randall had an easy-going manner and wasnu0026#39;t a bad actor at all. He was a good rider and handled action well. In this above-average Monogram oater, heu0026#39;s a trail scout named Cherokee who was adopted by Indians as a child after his parents were killed by a bandit gang in an attack on a wagon train. His little brother (Dennis Moore) was taken by the bandits and raised as one of them, and they told him it was Indians who had killed his parents. Years later the two brothers run into each other but donu0026#39;t know theyu0026#39;re brothers. Director Spencer Gordon Bennet keeps things moving swiftly, and thereu0026#39;s some really good use made of locations at Lone Pine, California, that give the picture a very sweeping and expensive look, something you donu0026#39;t often see in your run-of-the-mill u0026quot;Bu0026quot; western. Addison carries the picture well, Moore has a meatier role than he often got and does well with it, Joyce Bryant is pretty to look at, veterans Bud Osborne and Glenn Strange are around for authenticity, and thereu0026#39;s a good gun battle at the end with somewhat of an ingenious little twist. All in all, a very pleasant and pleasing little B from Monogram. Check it out.”