Robbers' Roost

William Pawley quarrels with George O'Brien, who pitches him into the water. So Pawley offers O'Brien a job. He's top hand at a ranch that has just been bought by an Englishman and his sister, and boy, are they going to rustle his cattle! O'Brien thinks this is fine, until he meets the Englishman. It's Reginald Owen, who is so pleasant and open (in the only role of his I didn't want him to shut up and go away in), that O'Brien has his doubts. He comforts himself with the thought Owen's sister is probably a dragon. Then it turns out to be Maureen O'Sullivan. Fortunately, they quarrel, which keeps the movie going a while longer.

The copy of this Fox oater was in poor condition, but with a screenplay by Dudley Nichols from a story by Zane Grey, it's handled nicely by director Louis King. With its poor image quality I can't say much, but given that the DP is the unjustly forgotten George Schneiderman, it would probably look great in a clean copy. With Maude Eburne and Robert Greig who, surprise! Plays a butler.