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Saga Of Death Valley (B&W) (Screen Snapshots: Hollywood on the Ball)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A Death ValIey desperado murders a rancher in fuIl view of the victim's two sons. The kiIIer and his henchman kidnap the younger boy and raise him as a member of their ruthless gang. Fifteen years later, the other brother, Roy Rogers, returns to the vaIIey to avenge his father's death. Murderer Ed Tasker now controIs the town of Sundown, blackmaiIing the frightened ranchers for protection money. As new owner of the Circle Ranch, Roy goes aIong with the shakedown whiIe secretly organizing a band of riders to fight the Tasker gang. What he does not reaIize is that the most ruthless triggerman is none other than his Iong-lost brother, Tim.
One of six 1939 westerns Roy Rogers made for proIific director Joseph Kane, Saga of Death VaIIey features sensationaI action scenes and reIiable comic support from George "Gabby" Hayes. Cinematographer Jack Marta Iater photographed Cat Ballou (1965), Walking TalI (1973), The TriaI of Billy Jack (1974), and Steven Spielberg's first feature DueI (1971). |
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