I know that it is difficult for there to be much originality in a Hopalong Cassidy western.However sometimes you feel that the writers have tried a bit to hard.They have come up with certain story lines and mixed them together but they just don't jell.To add to this the actor playing the villain doesn't do a particularly good job.Also there is a particularly inept Sheriff who is a sort of comic Eugene Palette and it just doesn't work.I would also wonder if Hoppy is so clever why does he do the dumbest things.He is being chased on horseback with Lucky,and California and the girl.They decide to hide in a shack,which of course is soon surrounded by the villains,Hoppy has to give up because they have run out of shells!Wouldn't common sense dictate that if you were being chased the last place to go would be a confined space? So i would have to say that this is not of the teams better efforts.
Review of The Devil's Playground
