Frontier Vengeance

Don "Red" Barry plays a cowhand (Jim Sanders) on his way to meet an old friend, Clay Blackburn, when he comes upon a stagecoach being set upon by robbers. The driver of the stage is Ruth Hunter who, with her father, runs the Hunter Stage Line. Jim soon has the reunion with Clay whose father, Frank Blackburn, is the unscrupulous owner of a rival stagecoach line and is trying to run the Hunters out of business. Both companies are in completion to get the pending mail contract. Blackburn, unbeknown to his son Clay, has hired thugs to harass and rob the Hunter Stagecoach. Jim goes to work for the Hunter line as a driver. The best action segments of the film are when Jim (or, more likely, the stuntman) stops a runaway stage and an exciting stagecoach race. The winner of the mail contract will be settled by the stagecoach race. I particularly liked the Ruth Hunter character (played by Betty Moran) for she has spunk. And unlike Lou Grant, of the Mary Tyler Moore show, I like spunk – it's refreshing to see. Don Barry did a rather so-so job. I kept looking at the henchman "Slash" thinking that he sure did look familiar. I looked it up and found that it was Kenneth MacDonald who played a judge many times on the Perry Mason television show. He did a good job as a judge and a good job as a thug.