Fighting Renegade (1939)
1939 · Feature film · 53 min · dir. Sam Newfield
A LIGHTNING FAST ACTION DRAMA!
- Western
Synopsis
El Puma, a Mexican desert guide, escorts an archaeological expedition headed by Professor Lucius Lloyd through the Indian badlands of Mexico. Marian, the professor's niece accompanies the party as only she can translate the Aztec writings in the diary of her father, murdered on a similar expedition six years previous. The professor is murdered by a knife, and the weapon is recognized as the property of El Puma. Magpie, a Federal Investigator, knows that El Puma is really "Lightnin' Bill'…
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Sam Newfield
- Writer
- William Lively
- Studio
- Victory Pictures Corporation
- Released
- 1939-08-31
- Running time
- 53 minutes
Cast & crew
Sam Newfield Director
Tim McCoy
Joyce Bryant
Ben Corbett
Ted Adams
Budd Buster
Dave O'Brien
Forrest Taylor- Reed Howes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · A Minor McCoy · bobsluckycat · 2005-09-10
Once again Tim McCoy is cast as Lightning Bill Carson, and again as a Mexican bandit. I stated in an earlier review that the Mexican bandit idea was ludicrous at best, since he never convincingly pulls it off. (Maybe he's not supposed too.) This film was shot completely outdoors. The in-the-tent scenes as brief as they are, have the sounds of the camera filming and its disconcerting. The film was pretty much thrown together.There are other technical flaws which I won't point out. It's a very mundane plot with just enough action for western fans and other kids big and small to appreciate. I'm…
★★ · Tim McCoy as a Mexican Once Again · Poohbah70 · 2019-10-17
As in "Code of the Cactus" McCoy has a double roll as "Lightnin" Bill Carson and here, using the same makeup, clothes and hokey accent, as a Mexican named El Puma. The plot involves hidden ancient Indian gold and McCoy is believed to have killed the man leading the search expedition. Unbelievably, McCoy has spent six years in disguise waiting for an opportunity to clear his name. And this is it. Good old Ben Corbett is there as his friend and former sidekick "Magpie"; Ted Adams is once again the bad guy; David O'Brien is the handsome guy on the dig who frets over, his girl's, Joyce Bryant's…
