Battling Marshal
Feature film · 52 min · dir. Oliver Drake
TERROR RIDES THE PLAINS...as Ruthless Killers Strike by Night!
- Western
Synopsis
In one of his last film roles, legendary B-Western cowboy Sunset Carson roots out the varmints responsible for a false smallpox scare. After arriving in the small town of Quartzville, Carson determines that a crooked lawyer-and-doctor team created a false smallpox epidemic in order to seize a gold mine from an old man and his family. Carson and his friends set out to bring the villains to justice. Al Terry, Pat Starling and Lee Roberts co-star.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Oliver Drake
- Writer
- Rose Kreves
- Studio
- Yucca Pictures
- Released
- 1950-01-15
- Running time
- 52 minutes
Cast & crew
- Oliver Drake Director
Sunset Carson- Cactus Jr.
- Al Terry
- Pat Starling
Lee Roberts
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Sunset Carson - Not THAT bad · Poohbah70 · 2019-11-28
I feel as if I've watched a different movie than the one panned and given one star by bobsluckycat - whose reviews are usually, as this one is, very informative regarding backgrounds of those involved on both sides of the camera and I'm usually in agreement with his ratings. But, not here. Granted, Sunset Carson was not a great actor, but he looked right, rode well, and was adequate for the part and good in the fight scenes. His sidekick Lee Roberts is and does nothing special here. The two boss bad guys are oily and deceitful enough for the amount of screen time they get. Pat Starling looks…
