Montana Incident

Montana Incident casts Whip Wilson and Rand Brooks as a pair of railroad surveyors whose arrival any place usually brings a round of drinks at the local saloon. Not in Martinville where the local Ponderosa says he really doesn't need a railroad.

Hugh Prosser the local Ben Cartwright doesn't have sons, he has two daughters Peggy Stewart and Noel Neill. Stewart is the older and she runs all of her dad's businesses with an iron hand and she wants no railroad. She has the men and guns to back it up.

So Wilson and Brooks are forced to side with the opposition led by homesteader William Fawcett.

It's an average cattle baron vs. homesteader western. It also had a cast that would shortly be all over Saturday morning TV soon. Rand Brooks on Rin Tin Tin, Noel Neill on Superman, and William Fawcett on Fury.

Stewart steals this picture she is one evil woman, see this for her.

Whip Wilson and Rand Brooks are surveying a valley for a railroad line. Peggy Stewart, who runs most of the valley, doesn't want the railroad, since it would mean the locals would be able to ship their cattle and trade with outsiders at better rates. Noel Neill is there to play Miss Stewart's good sister and for Brooks to ogle.

It's a good story and Lewis Collins directs with his usual efficiency; as usual, Whip Wilson is pretty bad. Not only is he incapable of delivering a line with any authority. He's grown a bit fat in this movie, and moves poorly except on horseback.Collins seems to have compensated for his inability to speak while moving by having everyone but Brooks stand still while talking.

Lewis Collins started out as a stage director. By the 1920s, he was in Hollywood, writing and directing shorts, B movies and even a serial or two along the way. He directed more than a hundred features and died, age 55, in 1954.

Whip Wilson (Whip Wilson) and his friend Dave Connors (Rand Brooks) survey the range for a railroad line, and are ordered to get out of the territory by Clara Martin (Peggy Stewart), the cold-eyed and unscrupulous older daughter of a retired cattlemen who owns the entire town and land around it. He allows his oldest daughter, Clara (Peggy Stewart) to run things, unknown to him, she has been milking the town dry with the aid of her fiancee (Bruce Edwards). Clara wants to stop the railroad surveying at any cost as the coming of the railroad will bring an end to her rule of the territory.

Whip Wilson doesn't brandish a whip here as he and his sidekick have to put up with a hard nosed lady who is aided by her fiancée. Wilson is ok as the hero, his dialogue towards the end is well expressed, but he can be a bit bland and stiff. Rand Brooks as his sidekick has a good chemistry with Wilson, which helps. But it's the Peggy Stewart show all the way and gives this standard oater a lift, making it quite involving. It just needed a longer time to flesh out the character and plot twists.