Agrega una trama en tu idiomaBob Marlow is sent undercover to an Arizona town where an outlaw gang, comprised of the six Tolliver brothers, have taken over the town and terrorizing the citizens. He comes to town, posing... Leer todoBob Marlow is sent undercover to an Arizona town where an outlaw gang, comprised of the six Tolliver brothers, have taken over the town and terrorizing the citizens. He comes to town, posing as an Eastern dude, and, through a series of incidents manages to get rid of three of the... Leer todoBob Marlow is sent undercover to an Arizona town where an outlaw gang, comprised of the six Tolliver brothers, have taken over the town and terrorizing the citizens. He comes to town, posing as an Eastern dude, and, through a series of incidents manages to get rid of three of the brothers, mostly through their own ineptness. The remaining brothers decide to get-while-... Leer todo
- Nate Tolliver
- (sin créditos)
- Doc Tolliver
- (sin créditos)
- Cowhand
- (sin créditos)
- Cowhand
- (sin créditos)
- Jake Tolliver
- (sin créditos)
- Ed - Bartender
- (sin créditos)
- Tolliver Brother
- (sin créditos)
- Red Tolliver
- (sin créditos)
Opiniones destacadas
The film packs a lot of ridin' and shootin' into less thlan an hour. Steele ie scrappy as always, Si Jenks provides comedy relief as a braggart who takes on the job of town marshal thinking it's an easy way to make money, Gertrude Messenger is pretty but doesn't have much to do, and everything gets tied up neatly at the end. It's about par for Steele's westerns for Supreme Pictures. Competently directed by his father Robert Bradbury, it's nothing special but a harmless enough way to pass an hour.
The town is the grip of a gang of six brothers named Tolliver who roam in at will and conduct all kinds of robbery and mayhem. No one wants to do anything, in fact just like in Bottleneck in Destry Rides Again they get the town drunk Si Jenks to be sheriff.
Young Bob Steele arrives in town from the east, he's a tenderfoot and no one takes him seriously. He 'accidentally' kills some of the Tolliver brothers and they make him Jenks's deputy. In reality he's one of 'the deadliest starpackers in the territory".
Borrowing a bit from Destry Rides Again, The Rider Of The Law is one of Bob Steele's best B westerns. It's got lots of action and it's laced with humor, courtesy of Si Jenks.
This is a good one, despite the limited production values.
Bob Steele just got better and better as his acting career continued. One movie I saw recently had him without a line, without a word to say. But every time he was in a scene, he practically stole it, just standing there, looking fierce.
Here he appears in a different role, gives a great performance, even as his character changes, and shows us once again why he was such a popular performer.
His leading lady is rather pretty, but has very little to do; but the sort-of comic relief gets plenty. Si Jenks was a good foil, with more than silliness to his character.
The brother bad guys all get a chance to stand out, individually. Two, James Sheridan and Steve Clark, in particular get the opportunity to be both funny and evil. And they don't even get screen credit!
One who does is the magnificent Earl Dwire. Dwire had a remarkable range, able to portray really rotten villains, comic characters, and nice ol' gents. Here he plays the chief villain but one who hides in plain sight as a citizen.
The characterizations are somewhat different in this B Western, and the script, with this great cast, makes this a stand-out, able to overcome flaws in the directing and the production.
I highly recommend "The Rider of the Law," available at YouTube as another gift from the wonderful Westerns on the Web.
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- TriviaThis film's earliest documented telecasts took place in Cincinnati 11/5/49 on WLW-T (Channel 4), and in New York City 12/11/49 on the DuMont Television Network's WABD (Channel 5).
- ConexionesRemade as Marshal of Heldorado (1950)
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Detalles
- Tiempo de ejecución
- 59min
- Color
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.37 : 1