On a cattle drive Hoppy, camp cook Windy, companion Lucky, and young Artie Peters encounter an eccentric professor. The professor professes to be searching for the evolutionary missing link, but in reality he is a cattle rustler who uses his dynamite to scatter the cattle in order capture some of them.
Is this for you? If you have a soft spot for 1930s B-Westerns, you'll probably get a kick out of Hopalong Rides Again. It’s light, it’s fast, and it doesn’t ask much of you. If you need complex character arcs or modern pacing, steer clear. You’ll be bored to tears within ten minutes. Honestly, watching this feels like...
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"Is this for you? If you have a soft spot for 1930s B-Westerns, you'll probably get a kick out of Hopalong Rides Again. It’s light, it’s fast, and it doesn’t ask much of you. If you need complex character arcs or modern pacing, steer clear. You’ll be bored to tears within ten minutes. Honestly, watching this feels like digging through an old box of dusty polaroids. William Boyd as Hoppy is just so reliably cool. He barely has to move a muscle to look like he’s in charge. The Dynamite Problem Th..."
William Boyd
Norman Houston, Clarence E. Mulford
United States
1937 · IMDb 6.9
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