Wyoming Roundup

Wyoming Roundup has Whip Wilson and sidekick Tommy Farrell arriving in town and after cleaning up a group of hired gunmen in a saloon brawl, saloon owner Lyle Talbot gives them a meal on the house and the town council hires them as marshals as the sheriff was recently slain. In fact that's how the film opens.

A couple of feuding ranchers are at the heart of this range war. But let's say Wilson and Farrell do too good a job in finding out who the real criminals are who are hiring people like Robert J. Wilkie to rough folks up.

Whip Wilson who was to be Monogram's Lash LaRue never even cracked it once during the film. Whip came along a bit too late, his stuff was being seen regularly on that box that was getting into everyone's living room.

Average horse opera, nothing special.

Cowhands Whip Wilson and Tommy Farrell wander into town looking for a job. Beef prices are down, so no one has a nickel, but the two accept the roles of marshal and deputy. There's a gunslinger in town range war brewing and they look into it.

It's Wilson's last movie as star, and there's a change in personnel behind camera. Lewis Collins has been replaced as director. Now it's Thomas Carr behind the megaphone and he tries something new: he has Wilson speak a couple of lines while walking.

It's a good story and Ernest Miller and Charles Van Enger get some good camerawork in, including some dark lighting for the interiors and handsome work on the Iverson Ranch. Wilson's career would end with a couple of uncredited bits, but series ingenue Phyllis Coates did ok. Director Carr would cast her as Lois Lane for a season of TV's THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN.