Frontier Justice (film) explained

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]

Plot

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.

Cast

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Webb Family in Hollywood.
  2. Web site: Collecting Delaware Books - George Brydges Rodney, Delaware's Western Writer.
  3. p.206 Pitts, Michael R. Astor Pictures: A Filmography and History of the Reissue King, 1933-1965 McFarland, 19 Apr 2019