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a_chinn Tim Holt oater has our hero once again falsely accused of murder, arrested, escapes, and then must clear his good name. Jiminy Cricket plays Holt's sidekick, er, I mean Cliff Edwards, who'd later go on to voice Jiminy Cricket, plays Holt's sidekick. It's nothing you haven't seen before in other low budget Holt RKO westerns, but if you enjoy this sort of thing, which I do, you'll likely be entertained by Holt doing the Holt western thing.

jacobs-greenwood Cattle rustling is a problem affecting a small town in the old West. A ranger is sent to clean things up, but he is killed on his way to the town. Tim Holt (the "man in black", who is actually the good guy) shows up just after the ranger is shot. He learns the man's name, Frank Mattison, and is asked by him to give his stenciled money belt to his sister (Joan Barclay), who will be arriving soon on the stagecoach. Holt then takes the dead man's body into town where he witnesses Martin (popular Western stock actor LeRoy Mason) claiming to be Mattison. Martin actually works for Frank Curtis (another popular stock actor), the cattle rustler's leader. Holt decides to keep quiet to uncover the rustling scheme and leaves the money belt with someone at the bank.When Curtis learns of Mattison's sister coming to town, he decides to have his men cause the stagecoach to have an accident. But Holt, who had already anticipated something like this, knowing that she could identify Martin as a fake, assembles his men and rescues the runaway stagecoach. They then stow her at Holt's ranch. However, when Holt returns to town, Martin and Curtis confront him and accuse him of killing the real Mattison. Martin claims that he was posing as Mattison because he was his partner, sent in incognito in advance to catch the rustlers. They take Holt to the bank to prove their accusation and, when the money belt stenciled with Mattison's name is presented, they convince even some of Holt's allies of his guilt. But Holt escapes with help from his goofy, singing sidekick Ike (Cliff Edwards, the uncredited voice of Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio (1940)), and hatches a plan to clear his name.Mattison's sister is "convinced" that Holt killed her brother. However, with a telegram from the Marshall's office that only Mattison was sent in, and not another man (e.g. Martin) undercover as well, Holt proves his innocence to her, winning her assistance. Holt then discovers the rustlers secret hideout (where the cattle are) and, using the same telegram, convinces his former townsfolk allies to help capture Martin and Curtis' gang. There is a spectacular shootout with several fight sequences which conclude the story, though Ike gets a new suit (had sent a previous telegram to order) and falls in mud to end the film with a gag.

bkoganbing Although this is a Tim Holt western, the title role is played by perennial western villain LeRoy Mason who plays a killer who shoots down a Texas Ranger and steals his badge and identity. It is rancher Tim Holt who hears the shooting and comes to a dying Dennis Moore who points Holt to a moneybelt he was wearing that Mason and his henchmen didn't notice. It contains a letter of identification and some money that he was carrying for his sister Joan Barclay who was meeting him in town.Holt does not expose Mason when he brings in Moore's body, he's hoping in some way that Mason will lead him to who's doing a lot of cattle rustling. But that proves a little too clever and Mason turns the table on him and it's Tim that's wanted for Moore's murder.This was usually the kind of gambit you might more often find in a Roy Rogers western although usually played for a little more humor. Nevertheless Tim does carry it off.Cliff Edwards whose career had a renaissance of sorts when he introduced When You Wish Upon A Star for Walt Disney in Pinnochio is playing the sidekick role for Tim Holt. That's another thing you would find in a Rogers western, a sidekick who was too stupid to know what was going on so Holt would have to explain his moves to him and the audience. Andy Devine was usually just such a sidekick in many Roy Rogers films of the Forties.Again a quality B western from RKO for Tim Holt.

kmoh-1 Very shortly after doing the Magnificent Ambersons, Tim Holt was making Bandit Ranger, one of his innumerable and indistinguishable Westerns. They were all pretty enjoyable, and short enough not to outstay their welcome, and this is no exception. Holt is very young for a rancher, but has the screen presence to overcome this handicap.The plot is absolutely routine: Holt uncovers a murder, for which he is blamed, and has to clear his name while simultaneously keeping a pretty girl out of danger. The girl, as is traditional in this plot, doesn't know Holt, and so he has to win her trust ... and maybe love? This is the plot of dozens of Holt films; here the part of the idiot sidekick is played, not by Richard Martin who came along later, but Cliff Edwards - more of a clown in his Ukelele Ike role, and he has a couple of nice musical numbers. The baddies are bad and plausible. The girl (Joan Barclay) is a bit dim. The twist where the bad guys turn the tables on Tim Holt is a clever one.All in all, very entertaining in its lower case way.