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Arizona Badman

Feature film · 49 min · dir. S. Roy Luby

  • Western

Synopsis

The daughter of a notorious cattle thief falls for a stranger at a dance. The stranger is really a lawman who is after her father.

Synopsis from TMDb

Details

Director
S. Roy Luby
Studio
Willis Kent Productions
Released
1935-02-01
Running time
49 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · Reb Russell - Strange Western Chopshop Special · Poohbah70 · 2019-11-17

Well, according to IMDb, we get 50 minutes out of 58 minutes and a western with the strangest ending imaginable. Reb Russell (Steve Donovan ) was no great actor, but nevertheless serviceable. Young Tommy Bupp (Dave Dunston) had plenty of experience playing a boy on a ranch in the west - only here, he is the son of nasty bad guy Slim Whitaker (Black Bart Dunston). Lovely Lois January (Lucy Dunstan) is the bad guy's daughter. Whitaker's main henchman Wade Botiler (Pedro Gonzales) is a mean and nasty guy, with a quick hand to his knife and gun. Things get complicated when Whitaker hires…

★ · A Reb Russell Western for Willis Kent · bobsluckycat · 2017-03-06

Let's clear up one misconception right away. Reb Russell plays the part of Steve Donovan in this film. The football jock turned erstwhile movie cowboy for a series of Willis Kent films in 1934-35 before going into the circus and then to cattle ranching where he found much success back in Kansas, was no real shakes as an actor. He knew it as did everybody else, but it was the Depression and it paid the bills. Lois January was the female lead and besides being a fetchingly pretty girl, she could act and made many "B" westerns on Poverty Role for various producers. The other "real" western…

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