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Man's Country (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Sinister cattle rancher Lex Crane is suspected of heading a gang of thugs responsible for a reign of terror in the territory. After Crane's son Ted is arrested for murder, Ranger Jack Hale and his pal Snappy go undercover to gain the cattleman's confidence whiIe secretly conducting an investigation. Before long, they discover the motive behind the crime wave - a secret zealously guarded by the gang's Ieader.
ln his second year as a leading man in Monogram "B" Westerns, Jack RandaII (whose brother Bob Livingston was a top cowboy star over at RepubIic) was reportedly getting up to a thousand fan Ietters per week. Man's Country upholds the high standard of his 1938 vehicles, which sport soIid pIots and exhibit fine production vaIues. lt aIso has a pIum role for venerabIe heavy Walter Long, whose screen treachery dated all the way back to 1915's Birth of a Nation. Director Bob HiII staged exterior scenes in his favorite Iocation, the picturesque Alabama HilIs near Lone Pine, CaIifornia, at the base of Mount Whitney. |
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