Helen Williams, lured to a wild cattle-town on the promise of a job learns that the job she has is not the kind she thought she had, and finds herself selling drinks and dancing with drunk cowboys in the saloon. She meets Jim Blake, the rough-and-ready foreman of the Bar-X Ranch and they fall in love.
If you’re looking for a polished Western with sweeping vistas and a swelling orchestral score, Across the Plains is going to be a massive disappointment. But if you have a soft spot for those dusty, 1930s B-pictures where the hero looks like he’d rather be wrestling a horse than delivering a line of dialogue, there’s s...
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Robert J. Horner
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"If you’re looking for a polished Western with sweeping vistas and a swelling orchestral score, Across the Plains is going to be a massive disappointment. But if you have a soft spot for those dusty, 1930s B-pictures where the hero looks like he’d rather be wrestling a horse than delivering a line of dialogue, there’s something almost charming about how clunky this is. It’s for the completionists, really. Or anyone who finds the stilted rhythm of early talkies weirdly hypnotic. If you want high a..."
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