So this was Tex Ritter's film debut. I'm getting down to the final fifty Westerns from my Mill Creek collection of two hundred fifty films, so forgive me if I'm losing some of my concentration. I know Ritter's the good guy here, so it was a shocking moment when it looked like he gunned down a couple of miners who had no means of self defense. It had buddy Fuzzy Knight fooled too, but fortunately it turned out to be part of a ruse to put the bad guy bunch away in the finale of the story.
I was still fairly sober when I watched this flick, which is more than I can say for Tex imitating a drunken caballero belting out 'Rye Whiskey' as his final tune in the story. That was the highlight of the film for me, but he did offer up a handful of entertaining songs along the way, including 'Out On The Old Prairie', 'My Sweet Chiquita' and 'Sam Hall'. I have to credit some other reviewers here on IMDb for those song titles because I wouldn't have known them on my own.
If one didn't know this was Ritter's very first picture I don't think it would make much difference because all of these oaters from the Thirties (and Forties) pretty much followed a similar formula within given parameters. Here Tex investigates the bad guys headed by villain Evans (Ted Adams) and comes out on top by the end of the story. Along the way he gets to romance the pretty Senorita Lolita Maria Dolores Del Valle (Joan Woodbury), which was interesting to me because the only other Lolita I ever came across was in that sexy 1962 flick starring Sue Lyon in the title role. As for his acting debut, I'd defer to Tex's request early in the picture - "You might ask your lady to give me a break."
I was still fairly sober when I watched this flick, which is more than I can say for Tex imitating a drunken caballero belting out 'Rye Whiskey' as his final tune in the story. That was the highlight of the film for me, but he did offer up a handful of entertaining songs along the way, including 'Out On The Old Prairie', 'My Sweet Chiquita' and 'Sam Hall'. I have to credit some other reviewers here on IMDb for those song titles because I wouldn't have known them on my own.
If one didn't know this was Ritter's very first picture I don't think it would make much difference because all of these oaters from the Thirties (and Forties) pretty much followed a similar formula within given parameters. Here Tex investigates the bad guys headed by villain Evans (Ted Adams) and comes out on top by the end of the story. Along the way he gets to romance the pretty Senorita Lolita Maria Dolores Del Valle (Joan Woodbury), which was interesting to me because the only other Lolita I ever came across was in that sexy 1962 flick starring Sue Lyon in the title role. As for his acting debut, I'd defer to Tex's request early in the picture - "You might ask your lady to give me a break."