Snake River Desperadoes (1951)
1951 · Feature film · 54 min · dir. Fred F. Sears
Charles STARRETT'S guns ablazing... Smiley BURNETTE'S fun amazing!
- Western
Synopsis
Starrett tries to prevent a range war between settlers and the Native Americans. Blue and his fellow scoundrels think they can profit from the bloodshed,but the Durango Kid along with a couple of precocious youngsters put an end to Blue's terrorism.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Fred F. Sears
- Writer
- Barry Shipman
- Cinematography
- Fayte M. Browne
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
- Released
- 1951-05-30
- Series
- The Durango Kid Collection
- Running time
- 54 minutes
Cast & crew
Fred F. Sears Director
Charles Starrett
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Boyhood favorite · dupar · 2024-03-23
Don Reynolds steals the show in this minor but cherished classic of westerns-for-boys. The color could be better but Don was in several movies shot in color and in none of them does the color look particularly realistic. That was the Trucolor process which was a two-color system popular in the early 30's and then discarded when Technicolor merged, only to be revived in the 40's as a low-budget system of color. I like it. The pastels are better than the eye-scalding technicolor. In any event there is no need to apologize for this colorization. It's fine. This movie was really popular on tv in…
