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"Coroner Creek" marked a departure for Randolph Scott in the character he plays. He usually played square-jawed righteous heros with a clear set of moral values. In this film he plays a character bent solely on revenge, even to the point of almost shooting the villain in the back as he tries to escape. He is driven by hate and has few if any redeeming qualities.

Scott is on the hunt for the person responsible for his fiance's death. He finally tracks him down in the town of Coroner Creek and sets out to force a final showdown. True to the Hollywood Production Code of the day, Scott's character sees the error of his ways at the end.

"Coroner Creek" boasts an excellent cast. George Macready plays the chief villain in a cold, cruel and calculating manner. Marquerite Chapman is the nominal heroine who tries to get Scott to change. Sally Eilers as a rancher and Barbara Read as Macready's alcoholic wife are the other female characters. Edgar Buchanan plays the spineless sheriff who eventually finds his courage and Wallace Ford plays Scott's only real friend and ally.

The rest of the cast is made up of many veterans of "dusters" both of the "A" and "B" variety. On the wrong side of the law are Forrest Tucker, Douglas Fowley and Joe Sawyer. On the right side of the law are Russell Simpson, William Bishop and Forrest Taylor. Charlie Stevens appears as (what else?) an Apache who provides Scott with information on the killer. And if you look close you'll see Joe DeRita (of the Three Stooges) and Dewey Robinson as bartenders.

"Coroner Creek" was a grim, realistic western for its time. Don't miss the brutal encounter between Scott and Tucker about half way through the film.

When I saw that British TV was screening an unfamiliar 1948 Randolph Scott Western, I assumed it would be one of his less exciting films in black and white - it's his later efforts that are usually shown. In the event, I was pleasantly surprised; it was shot in good quality colour that showed the outdoor scenery to advantage and the plot was better than in most contemporary Westerns (though not up to that of Red River, released the same year). Several of its features bring to mind later, better known, films.

Scott looks thinner than we are accustomed to see him, almost haggard, which suits him in the role of a driven man seeking vengeance for the death (and presumed rape) of his woman; this reminds one of Rancho Notorious and Scott's own Ride Lonesome. He has a very violent fist fight with Forrest Tucker (less weather-beaten than in later films), with the two men viciously stamping on each other's gun hands - a forerunner of James Stewart's fate in The Man from Laramie. And when Marguerite Chapman overcomes her religious scruples to come to the aid of her man, one thinks of Grace Kelly doing the same in High Noon.

George Macready makes a sinister villain and Edgar Buchanan is in his familiar role as a half-good, half-bad guy - and he doesn't growl as much as usual.

There are some unconvincing touches. When Scott rides into his enemy's town the citizens stare after him in a weak attempt to suggest that they sense that nemesis has arrived; this was better done by Burt Lancaster in Lawman and by Clint Eastwood in many of his films. Yet minutes later this supposedly sinister stranger is entrusted with driving a drunken, attractive woman home. And it's not giving anything away in a Western of this (or almost any) era to say that the villain gets what he deserves, but his precise way of dying is unrealistic.

On the other hand we are spared the sight common in Scott's later Westerns of an actor in his fifties (Scott was born in 1898) romancing someone half his age; indeed the love interest throughout is very low key, with the emphasis being on Macready's failed marriage.

All in all it's a good, enjoyable film to watch.

Out in the remote Southwest a stagecoach his held up by renegade Apache Indians led by a mysterious white man. All bar one of the passengers are killed, the other, a female, is taken as captive but takes her own life rather than suffer any more indignities. That woman was the fiancée of cowboy Chris Denning, who upon learning of the news vows revenge and goes in search of the mysterious leader. A search that takes him to the small town of Coroner Creek...

Coroner Creek doesn't mess about, it's a tough, no nonsense Oater that may have flecks of humour, and pretty gal familiarity's, but most assuredly thrives on its darkly revenge driven core. Directed by Ray Enright and starring genre supremo Randolph Scott as Denning, Coroner Creek is adapted by Kenneth Gamet from the novel written by Luke Short. Very much following the old biblical thematic of "an eye for an eye", Enright's film, produced by Harry Brown, boasts rousing fist fights, simmering sexual tensions and a riveting finale.

Scott is terrific, as he mostly always is in these genre pieces. Denning's sense of pain and hunger for revenge is perfectly brought home to the viewers by Scott, an actor who has the ability to express so much with darkened eyes and a down-turned mouth. And of course more crucially, Scott brings believability to his characters. You really wouldn't know he was 50 years of age whilst making this picture, such is the gusto he puts into the role. He's backed up by George Macready doing a solid line in scar faced villainy, the always enjoyable Wallace Ford as Denning's newly formed confidante Andy West, while Sally Eiles and Marguerite Chapman fill the important female roles with professional turns.

On the minor downside is the use of Cinecolor, a two colour process that fails to bring Fred Jackman's cinematography to life, whilst simultaneously giving the actors an odd looking sheen. DVD and TV viewers may find they have to tone down a couple of hues on this one to find a decent colour balance. Still it be a fine genre entry and one that is a must see for Randy Scott enthusiasts. 8/10

With his square-jawed determination, Scott (Danning) makes a riveting screen presence. So, by golly, he's going to get whoever is responsible for his fiancé's death and nothing's going to stand in his way. Not even the comely Chapman (Kate) or the Big Guy in the Sky. But he's got a tough bunch to deal with, especially blond bruiser Tucker (Ernie), who would rather grind hands than seeds. That fist-fight with Danning may be a stretch, but it's sure imaginative. Then there's that arch baddie Macready (Miles) and veteran sneer merchant Douglas Fowley (Stew). So Danning's got his work cut out for him.

You gotta love those red rock Sedona AZ locations. They turn up in so many horse operas of the time. Speaking of turning up and lending color—yes indeed, there he is, old gravel- voiced grouch Edgar Buchanan as the sheriff. No western of the day worth its salt was without his particular brand of character color. And, guys, there's not just the usual one good-looking woman in the movie. There're three, so which one will Scott end up with.

Can't help noticing that Harry Joe Brown produced this film along with Scott's later The Tall T (1957). Then too, the plot here is similar to many of the Scott-Buddy Boetticher classics of a decade later. But then, Scott was so good at grim determination, it's hard not to make him a revenge-seeker. Anyway, better than most six-gun directors, Enright knows where to put the camera, helping to make this one of Scott's more memorable westerns that even non-fans may enjoy.

Randolph Scott ushers in the new era of the mature, more complex Western for adults, with this tale of an enraged cowboy living only for revenge against a ruthless and evil cattle baron (who even has a scar!). Traditional by today's standards, but well done and enjoyable. The brutal fist fight scene, complete with some gruesome finger breakings, was quite harsh for the era. The film was a big hit, but though breaking new ground, it still had a nice and tidy moral resolution.

In Coroner Creek, Randolph Scott has a cross to bear. He wants revenge for his fiancé's murder. In a fun change of pace for him, he gets to shed his good-guy image and play an antihero, out for blood. He stumbles into the town of Coroner Creek and falls in with Marguerite Chapman. You might recognize her; she made a few westerns and is known for being both tough and feminine. Together, they find the man responsible for Scottie's tragedy, and plot out the path to vengeance.

Die-hard western fans will love this one. It's full of action, passionate characters, and fight scenes. One of the slugfests are so rough and tough, Scottie ends the scene with blood dripping from his mouth and a broken hand. Not to worry, ladies, because Scottie proves to be more macho than he's ever been in any of his movies! He continues to punch the bad guys, even with his broken hand! This may be a manly western, but the ladies in the audience will love it. They'll be treated to Scott in Technicolor, which is always fun, a few broad grins, which he rarely bestows, and quite a few camera angles that show off his extremely firm glutes. All he has to do is back into someone and they'll get a bruise!

This fine Randy Scott is driven by the blind hate as Chris Danning who wanting for his fiancée coming from at Stagecoach, sadly had an assault by Indians leads by a tall men, blue eyes, blonde hair and a left side Scarface killed everybody just spares the girl that ends up committed suicide by a knife, he takes it for his own purposes, henceforth Danning has been helded by an everlasting hunting to find this unknown man, at Coroner Creek he reach him, a powerful rancher called Younger Miles (George Macready) expecting a proper occasion to make his so awaited vengeance, there he meets Kath Hardison (Marguerite Chapman) a beauty hotel's owner, something arise between both, Denning also faces the Miles's gang leading by Ernie Combs (Forest Tucker), that later provides us a most notorious broken hands sequence on movie when just a left hand Danning knock down Ernie and return the comity, aside all skirmishes has some relief on Wallace Ford's friendly and warm funny character as And West, he stolen the movie talking with horse and having some abrupt encouragement, the final has the expected showdown, however unusual as we wanting for, fine B-western surround by breathtaking landscape!!

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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5

When Randolph Scott was on your trail there was no one worse to have as an enemy in the old west. Proof of that is to be found in Coroner Creek one of the best westerns he ever did.

Scott's bride-to-be was among several passengers killed during a stage holdup, perpetrated by Indians, but led by a renegade white man played by George MacReady.

Armed with only a general description, Scott tracks him down to a town called Coroner Creek where the renegade is now has a veneer of respectability. No one knows of his past there. But he doesn't have a bunch of gun hands like Forrest Tucker and Douglas Fowley for nothing.

Coroner Creek is adapted from a western novel by Luke Short, but it bears a big resemblance to the larger budgeted James Stewart western, The Man From Laramie. Personally I think Coroner Creek is better even though it is a B western.

The highlight of the film is a nasty fight between Forrest Tucker and Randolph Scott. Tucker stomps on Scott's right hand, breaking his trigger finger. When Wallace Ford holds MacReady's men at gunpoint, Scott evens the score in a savage fight where Scott beats him even though he is only able to use his left hand. Scott then does the same thing to Tucker. You next see him sporting a left handed holster and he proves pretty adept with his left hand. The look on Randolph Scott's face as he tears into Tucker is unforgettable. He's more than a man, Scott is a force of nature in Coroner Creek.

In a career where he played a couple dozen villains, one of the meanest George MacReady ever played was in Coroner Creek. You will not easily forget MacReady, his veneer of sophistication hiding barbaric acts of unspeakable cruelty.

Coroner Creek is the finest introduction you could make concerning the films of Randolph Scott. You will be a fan after you see this.

Randolph Scott is "Danning", a man bent on revenge after his fiancée is killed. He learns early on from the local hotel owner "Kate" (Marguerite Chapman) that the culprit was George Macready ("Younger Miles") and now employed by determined local ranch owner "Della" (Sally Eilers) he plots his revenge. The storyline of this film all now follows a pretty well trodden path, though it is interesting to see Scott play someone a little nastier than usual and the women in the film are given much more substantial roles in the development of the story. Edgar Buchanan turns in a lively cameo as the sheriff but otherwise Macready is pretty hopeless as the baddie, and the plot sort of stutters along until a really disappointing, slightly puritanical, ending. It's an adequate western that runs bang on ninety minutes - but I can't say I would watch it again.

Not a bad movie, it stars Randolph Scott as a man whose wife has been killed by the heavy (MacReady) and who spends the rest of the story tracking him down and whittling away at both his empire and his nerves.

Scott looks fine physically, as usual. MacReady is suitably villainous. He looks so awesomely Teutonic. Come to think of it, as a revenge Western, this should have been directed by Fritz Lang.

That probably would have helped a good deal because Ray Enright's direction never rises above the functionally mediocre. Actors go where they are supposed to go and say what they are supposed to say, and that's about it. But then the whole film is routine. The characters are pretty simple. Two men fight and tumble into a shack and the balsam wood boards scatter like feathers. The script is equally prosaic. The comic sidekick, Wally Ford, adds an obligato to some of his lines -- "I reckon." (Amusing.) The cast has a lot of familiar faces who aren't asked to do very much with their one-dimensional characters. The three actresses are fundamentally uninteresting.

It isn't terrible. What I mean is that it's not a cheap B Western with telephone poles in the background. It's just that, considering some of Scott's other Westerns, it rather groans and creaks.

Once again Randolph Scott is after the guy who killed his betrothed, and when you learn the culprit was tall, blonde, blue-eyed and has a scar on his cheek and the cast includes George Macready you know what's coming...

That Macready plays the main villain indicates the calibre of the cast producer Harry Joe Brown has assembled for this moody tale of revenge by Luke Short. The rest of the production shows evidence of equal care, including the costumes, production design and photography by Fred Jackman Jr., all of which extract the maximum visual impact from Cinecolor's limited palate; notably during the almost expressionist final shootout.

This film begins with a stagecoach being ambushed by Apaches while traveling on a dusty road in the country. Once the stagecoach stops all of the male passengers are killed while the lone female is taken prisoner. The scene then shifts to 18 months later with a cowboy by the name of "Chris Danning" (Randolph Scott) asking some questions pertaining to this specific event and being told by one of the Apaches who took part in the ambush that a white man working for one of the numerous stagecoach and freighter lines was responsible. Although his specific name wasn't known a description is given and with that Chris Danning rides off to search for him in every town along the way. His search eventually brings him to the small town of Coroner Creek where he finds the man responsible but whatever plans he might have are frustrated by the number of hired hands he has around him at all times. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an okay film which benefited from a good performance by Randolph Scott. Admittedly, I would have liked a bit more intrigue or romantic chemistry between Chris and either "Kate Hardison" (Marguerite Chapman) or "Della Harms" (Sally Eillers) but having said that I was satisfied with this film for the most part and have I rated it accordingly. Average.

Spectacular scenery highlights this Randolph Scott movie. Scott was 50 yers old when this was made and he never looked better. He is a man out to avenge his fiance's death caused by veteran bad guy, George MacReady. Lots of action and great fun watching Scott do his thing.

Director Enright is an unknown to me but he does a competent directing job in CORONER CREEK. Photography is above average, dialogue sharp, action believable and well edited, and the cherry on the cake is Randy Scott's performance, possibly his finest after RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY, SEVEN MEN FROM NOW and RIDE LONESOME.

First class performances too from slightly deranged, wholly evil, top villain George Macready, laughing heavy Forrest Tucker and doting daddy Edgar Buchanan.

Great punch-up between Scott and Tucker, with head butts and revenge thrown in all in the same bout. Unfortunately, Scott delivers the first heavy punch with the damaged hand and only feels the pain with the second punch, thereafter he uses the other hand. That goof aside, it is a credible and well staged sequence.

CORONER CREEK is one of the most unassuming yet gripping Westerns I have ever watched. 8/10.

Randolph Scott (Chris) is out to avenge the man responsible for the death of his fiancée. He has a description of the man responsible and so his search begins. That man is George Macready (Miles) who is now living as top dog in the town of Coroner Creek. Scott arrives and plays a tactical game.

The problem with the film is the path that Scott pursues to take his revenge. I'm all for a bit of revenge - it can be very satisfying. Why doesn't he just get on with what he came for instead of namby-pambying around with psychological warfare. He gets involved with too many people. Henchman Forrest Tucker (Ernie) gives him a good fight but there is no way Scott would have defeated him with the use of only one arm. Unrealistic nonsense. So, the film loses a point. I also found Macready an unconvincing bad guy - he's too angelic looking.

It is filmed in colour which makes a change for 1948 but the process only seems to have brought out oranges and greens. Everything is orange, browny-orange, orangey-brown and green. The film is ok to watch but I was a little disappointed and it includes a far-fetched ending with dodgy shooting that ties everything up conveniently.

I'm off to but a new orangey-brown outfit but not sure what colour it will go with. I'll try green.

"Coroner Creek" is a Randolph Scott film that combines two typical western themes--revenge and the evil power-grabbing boss. It begins with a stage coach being attacked by Indians. However, these Indians are only working for the evil unknown white man. During this attack, the folks on the coach were murdered and one of them is Chris Danning's fiancé. Scott plays Chris Danning--a man determined to exact justice. After a montage showing Chris going town to town looking for a blond man with a scar, his trail leads to Coroner Creek---and to an evil boss-man named Younger Miles (George Macready). But, like a typical western baddie, Miles has hired a bunch of thugs (including Forrest Tucker and Joe Sawyer) and Chris is going to have to go through all this guys before his ultimate showdown with Younger. In the process, will Chris be able to hold on to his humanity? As I mentioned in the summary, this film, though reminiscent of other movies, handles it all very well. Scott managed to make it all seem very realistic and was at his best here. Well worth seeing.

Stalwart western hero Randolph Scott is at his stalwart best in "Coroner Creek" - and it wasn't directed by the overrated Budd Boetticher. Scott is a man of action as he attempts to avenge the killing of his fiancée at the hands of George MacReady in one of his most villainous roles. As mentioned, the emphasis is on action; the exasperating Boetticher often put one of Hollywood's best cowboy stars in complex psychological situations while forgoing Scott's long suit.

In "Coroner Creek", Scott is surrounded by three women who manage to slow down the story by their presence; Marguerite Chapman as a moralizing hotel owner, Sally Eilers as a widowed ranch owner, and Barbara Read as Macready's dipso wife. But the storyline is so good that you can overlook these interruptions and await his next confrontation with baddies. There are gunfights and fistfights enough to satisfy the most avid action fan, including a left-handed fist fight with Forrest Tucker (you'll have to watch it for more info). I liked this one enough to rate it an eight.

By the Late 1940's the Western Genre seemed to be Influenced by the Spontaneous Zeitgeist of the Film-Noir.

Adopting a more Realistic, Edgy, and Stinging Display.

A Trademark, by the way, of the Film's Novelist Source Author, the Excellent Luke Short.

The Face of Hollywood Westerns, along with its Sister Genres like Drama, Mysteries, Melodrama and Thrillers were becoming "New" with Regards to Atmosphere, Style, and Tone.

The Art of the Motion Picture was Evolving past its Pre-War Naievate and Friendly Entertainment.

This is a Great Example.

What would Become a Tone Utilized by Anthony Mann and Budd Boetticher to Reinvent the Western more Suitable to Cultural Changes and gave Audiences something to Embrace.

The Changing Template of Modernism in Art.

Randolph Scott is Simply Superb, Unleashed and Undeterred in this Tale of Revenge that Cuts Deep into the Physical Violence of a "Won't Be Denied" Quest.

"Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord" is Rebutted by..."I have also heard an eye for an eye" by the Determined Protagonist.

There is No sometimes Silly Romantic Entanglement that takes in a lot of Randolph Scott Westerns.

Here it is Relegated to "Friendship", taking a Back Seat to the more Severe Elements of a Man on a Mission.

The Cutting Violence of Fisticuffs and Gun-Play are On Screen Frequently and Pulls No Punches.

This is an Atypical Movie Showcasing an Unfettered Story of Determined Grit.

Anyone who rates below 7 is not thinking clearly. The plot, the scenery, the acting is way above average. This film is one of Randolph Scott's best. It keeps telling me my review is too short to post. Watch it for yourself.

One of the best of Randolph Scott from this late forties period. After this era, we'll have to wait ten years and his Budd Boetticher cycle, and seven movies, to be really astonished. But concerning this western, yes, I prefer ths one to the ones Randy Scott made with Andre De Toth, for Warner, or even Joseph H Lewis for Columbia. George McReady in a western, I don't know if I had seen it before, because McReady was rather used to crime or swashbucklers instead. Here, the chemistry works pretty well. A must see for western seekers. Ray Enright gave us not only westerns, far from that - even comedies, musicals - but his westerns were above average.