The Courageous Avenger (1935)
1935 · Feature film · 58 min · dir. Robert N. Bradbury
Yellow Gold in the Desert...Loot for Outlaw Raiders!
- Western
Synopsis
Kirk Baxter has been sent to investigate murder and robbery involving gold shipments. Identifying a gang member by his bullets, he uses that man's horse to locate and join the gang. He learns the gang is tipped off to the shipments by a mine employee using carrier pigeons. But the next message reveals his true identity and he is made a prisoner.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Robert N. Bradbury
- Writer
- Charles F. Royal
- Studio
- Supreme Pictures
- Released
- 1935-12-12
- Running time
- 58 minutes
Cast & crew
Robert N. Bradbury Director
Johnny Mack Brown
Helen Ericson
Warner Richmond
Eddie Parker
Ed Cassidy
Frank Ball
Forrest Taylor
Earl Dwire
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · A Good Western To End 1935 On · bobsluckycat · 2011-06-30
A good, sturdy, and quick little western for A.W. Hackel's Supreme Pictures. Directed by Robert N. Bradbury with stunts by Yakima Canutt (obviously). Johnny Mack Brown's last release for 1935 is quite good of kind. It's filmed almost completely outdoors on location, with the exception of the begginning and the Mine interiors, later on. Johnny Mack was fast becoming a matinee favorite and this picture didn't hurt. In late 1936, Republic Pictures contracted with Hackel of the remainder of the Brown western films through 1937. Movie crazy man/ villian Warner Richmnod shines in this too, as he…
★★ · Johnny Mack Brown in a Two-Kisser · Poohbah70 · 2019-11-23
Yes, Johnny Mack Brown (Ken Baxter) gets kissed at the beginning and at the end - some kind of record for westerns. Otherwise, he spends half the film riding all over the place, and getting somewhere slowly and, of course, on his own - no western star worth his salt wants any help when facing five or more armed men alone. And, why does every other western start with 5 desperados riding through the desert scrub to hold up a stagecoach or wagon? The mine owner is robbing himself - and has his henchmen shooting with silver bullets the casings of which become uniquely marked after firing - he…
