Frontier Justice | |
Director: | Robert F. McGowan |
Producer: | Walter Futter |
Screenplay: | Scott Darling Harry S. Webb (uncredited)[1] Homer King Gordon (additional dialogue) |
Based On: | the novel by Colonel George Brydges Rodney |
Starring: | Hoot Gibson |
Music: | Lee Zahler |
Cinematography: | Arthur Reed |
Editing: | Carl Himm |
Studio: | Walter Futter Productions |
Distributor: | Diversion Pictures Grand National Pictures |
Runtime: | 58 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Frontier Justice is a 1935 black-and-white Western film directed by Robert F. McGowan starring Hoot Gibson based on the novel by Colonel George Brydges Rodney.[2] Produced for Walter Futter's Diversion Pictures, it was rereleased by Grand National Pictures in 1937 and later reissued by Astor Pictures in the 1940s.[3]
In order to seize his cattle ranch to turn it into a sheep pasture, a wealthy sheepman and a crooked doctor have the ranch owner Sam Holster certified insane and placed in an insane asylum. His son returns from five years in Baja California to stop the range war and set things straight using his six gun and a variety of mail order practical joke devices.