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There may have been more westerns made than any other kind of film back in the day because it was a truly unique to the US experience.The rest of the world loved them as most of us did.The problem was distortion of facts and a lot of crap but most were entertaining and told of a morality that is considered by most today as just plain corny.
One of the major stars of this film genre was Randolph Scott and in this film he plays Vance Shaw a gunman trying to go straight and also Robert Young as Richard Blake a young surveyor who is as they say in westerns"a tenderfoot"The plot is sort of contrived but there are a few strong heroic scenes to show the morality of good vs evil including a confrontation by Vance against the films bad guy Barton MacLane as Jack Slade,Vance's brother.Yes its gonna get biblical !!!! The plot isn't as important as the action and morality.The acting is good and the rest of the cast are veterans of the era.My only issue is I never really bought the idea that the "indians"were really bad white guys.Small issue ha,ha.That plus the dated-ness of this 1941 release takes the 1 and 1/2 stars come off.It's just right at 95 minutes and if you've seen some other movies I recommend like Blazzing saddles and Northwest passage, you'll enjoy this one as well. The trailer following the pix is a scene from Amazon.com as I couldn't find the real trailer from so long ago.Small IMDB summary below.
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
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