L'homme de l'Utah

Original title: The Man from Utah

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John Wayne and George 'Gabby' Hayes in L'homme de l'Utah (1934)

In a horse-riding rodeo contest bad guys want John Weston to lose. When he doesn't go along they add some insurance: a poisoned needle just under his saddle.In a horse-riding rodeo contest bad guys want John Weston to lose. When he doesn't go along they add some insurance: a poisoned needle just under his saddle.In a horse-riding rodeo contest bad guys want John Weston to lose. When he doesn't go along they add some insurance: a poisoned needle just under his saddle.

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John Wayne

John Weston

Polly Ann Young

Marjorie Carter

Anita Campillo

Dolores
(as Anita Compillo)

Edward Peil Sr.

Spike Barton
(as Edward Peil)

George 'Gabby' Hayes

Marshal George Higgins
(as George Hayes)

Yakima Canutt

Cheyenne Kent

George Cleveland

Nevada Sheriff

Silver Tip Baker

Townsman
(uncredited)

Edward Biby

Bartender
(uncredited)

Earl Dwire

Rodeo Announcer
(uncredited)

Sam Garrett

Pendleton Rodeo Performer
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Herman Hack

Kent Henchman
(uncredited)

Jack Kirk

Henchman
(uncredited)

Bud McClure

Henchman on Roof
(uncredited)

Lafe McKee

Judge Carter
(uncredited)

Perry Murdock

Captured Bank Robber
(uncredited)

Artie Ortego

2nd Bank Robber
(uncredited)
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Tex Palmer

Rodeo Judge
(uncredited)

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5/10

Headed Nowhere At The Moment

Here's another of the cheap B westerns that John Wayne starred in between THE BIG TRAIL and STAGECOACH. He's singing - voice provided by Jack Kirk - on a slow horse with his last dollar. Marshall Gabby Hayes gets him to look into some baddies. Wayne romances Polly Ann Young and gets into a fixed rodeo.

The copy I looked at was pretty good, with some nice camerawork by Archie Stout, one of twelve he was DP on that year. This being a Paul Malvern production, little money was spent on anything, and the soundtrack was so odd, atypically filled with romantic violas and blaring brass, that I concluded it was added decades later, along with the Foley work.

It's directed at a good clip by Robert Bradbury, but no one was getting a fat contract with a major studio off this one. John Ford would rescue Wayne in 1939, and Stout, who had been DP on Demille's THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, a few years later.

boblipton
May 31, 2019
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Trivia
The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.

Goofs
A sign spelling out CALGARY STAMPEDE backwards can be seen in the rodeo footage.

Quotes
Marshal George Higgins: It seems mighty funny to me that every time this gang organizes a rodeo, their own men win all the first prizes. When it begins to look like an outsider is going to win, he gets sick. Two or three has even died from it.
John Weston: Well, you can't arrest them for that, Marshal.
Marshal George Higgins: No, maybe not. But it's might peculiar that when these outsides fall off them top broncs, they're suffering from snakebite. I tell ya, it just ain't natural.
John Weston: What do you want me to do? Get snake bit?

Alternate versions
Fox/Lorber Associates, Inc. and Classics Associates, Inc. copyrighted a version in 1985 with a new original score composed and orchestrated by William Barber. It was distributed by Fox/Lorber and ran 52 minutes.