Review by mmipyle

"No Man's Range" (1935) is a Bob Steele oater that plays every clichéd trope to the hilt. Still, the Steele oaters always have a rangeful of great horse riding and, in the case of this particular film, a truly wonderful amount of stunt work in the fight scenes, of which there are many. One of the drawbacks of nearly all the Steele western films of the early 30s through the mid-30s is the beginning of the films and the very, very ends of the films. They almost seem as if someone has forgotten his or her lines after the introductory sentence, then with the too long pause a response occurs. The endings nearly always are a quick hash of girl and guy together in a kiss or love clench, usually with marriage as the inevitable.

This one finds Bob coming to an area "from New Mexico" to claim half ownership in a ranch with his step father, a man he's never met. He runs into a range war. The rest is the typical western "B" story. It's very well done for the most part, directed by Steele's father, Robert N. Bradbury, and made for Supreme Pictures on a nothing budget. Maybe less than nothing. It's a quick outing at 56 minutes, and I enjoyed it. I always seem to enjoy Bob Steele films. This one's no better than 5 stars out of 10, but it's not really below that.

Besides Steele, there are Roberta Gale, Buck Connors (who can get on your nerves a tad when he thinks he's being humorous), Steve Clark, Charles K. French, Jack Rockwell, Earl Dwire (great friend in real life with Steele and a great bad guy in Steele's movies), Roger Williams, Ed Cassidy, and many other set piece "B" western actors like Wally West. Oh, by the way, guess who gets the last laugh in the film? Yep, a horse!