After a five year absence Gene returns home to find his father murdered and his boyhood pal accused of the dastardly deed..

Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for 1930s B-westerns or want to see the birth of the singing cowboy trope, sure. If you hate slow pacing or the idea of a movie pausing every ten minutes for a guitar solo, stay away. It is not exactly high art, but it has that weird, grainy charm of old celluloid that mak...


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"Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for 1930s B-westerns or want to see the birth of the singing cowboy trope, sure. If you hate slow pacing or the idea of a movie pausing every ten minutes for a guitar solo, stay away. It is not exactly high art, but it has that weird, grainy charm of old celluloid that makes you want to drink a lukewarm coffee and just stare at the screen. Gene shows up looking like he just stepped off a postcard. The plot is thin—like, paper-thin. His dad is dead,..."

Ken Cooper
Alan Ludwig, Ford Beebe
United States

1934 · IMDb 6.8


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