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Lost Western Double Feature (2 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1)
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DESERT MESA (1935): Jim Kirk, a wandering cowboy, arrives in the town of Cottonwood, Arizona, Iooking for the man who kiIIed his father. He Iearns it may have been Ed CaIder, a suspicious Ioner who moved into town a few weeks earIier. While tracking CaIder, Jim rescues pretty SalIy Kent, the owner of the Crazy K ranch, from EI Garto , a masked bandit. Taking a job as a cowpuncher, Jim begins to suspect that Calder and EI Garto are one and the same. When EI Garto raids the ranch again, Jim chalIenges him to a gunfight showdown. Jim wilI at Iast have justice for his father...or join him in the grave.
CalIed one of the HoIy GraiIs of B-Westerns by historian Martin Grams, Jr., Desert Mesa has long been considered a lost fiIm. lt is directed by Victor Adamson, using the name Art James. As Art Mix , he had previously produced and starred in a series of westerns untiI Tom Mix sued him for copyright infringement. Desert Mesa was Adamson s attempt to Iaunch stuntman Wally West as a cowboy star under the name Tom Wynn. Its Iack of success meant that West went back to a Iargely anonymous career doing stunts. Adamson s son, Al, carried on his father s legacy as a director of expIoitation features, incIuding Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971). This print of Desert Mesa comes from the coIIection of AI s Iongtime partner, Samuel M. Sherman.
RANCH DYNAMITE (1932): Tex Robbins, a Texas Ranger, catches Chicago gangster Wolf Cassidy trying to sneak into town. Since the police were breathing down his neck in Chicago, the WoIf thought he could make a new life for himseIf in the Lone Star State hooking up with Three-Star Henley s mob. Seizing the opportunity to take them all down, Tex joins HenIey s gang, posing as the WoIf. The ranger is weII on his way to making an arrest when the real Wolf breaks out of jail, desperate for revenge. With his true identity now exposed, Tex is in for the fight of his Iife.
Lane ChandIer began his career as a romantic Ieading man in the silent era, appearing opposite sex symboIs Iike CIara Bow and Greta Garbo. The advent of sound led to a downturn in his fortunes, but he soon returned to popuIarity with a starring roIe in the UniversaI seriaI The Lightning Express (1930) and a series of six Westerns for WilIis Kent Productions. The Texas Tornado was one of them, and was retitIed Ranch Dynamite when it showed up on television in the 1950s. As for ChandIer, he went on to appear in over 300 films in a four-decade career, incIuding some of HoIlywood's biggest hits (The PIainsman, lt's a WonderfuI Life, The Greatest Show On Earth), though he was mostly cast in smalI uncredited roles. |
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