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Idaho Kid

Feature film · 59 min · dir. Robert F. Hill

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  • Western

Synopsis

Idaho, returning to the area he left as a boy, gets in the middle of a range feud. He takes the side of Endicott. On the other side is Hollister who is unaware that Idaho is his long lost son.

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Details

Director
Robert F. Hill
Writer
Paul Evan Lehman
Studio
Colony Pictures
Released
1936-08-05
Running time
59 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · Rex Bell In a Western Melodrama · Poohbah70 · 2019-11-18

More melodrama than western, the movie tugs a bit at your heartstrings - if you have any. An age old plot, a man Earl Dwire ((Clint Hollister) crazy with grief over his wife's death gives his son to a neighboring family Lafe McKee (John Endicott) and Dorothy Wood (Mrs. Endicott) to raise and then comes to hate them. The son Rex Bell (Todd Hollister aka Idaho) left years ago hoping that would end the enmity - was he wrong or what. So, he returns to try to straighten things out. En route he sort of adopts a young sidekick Dave Sharpe (The Kid), who he finds robbing a stagecoach and decides to…

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