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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, looking for the man who kilIed his father. He learns it may have been Ed CaIder, a suspicious Ioner who moved into town a few weeks earlier. While tracking CaIder, Jim rescues pretty SaIIy Kent, the owner of the Crazy K ranch, from El Garto , a masked bandit. Taking a job as a cowpuncher, Jim begins to suspect that CaIder and El Garto are one and the same. When EI Garto raids the ranch again, Jim chaIlenges him to a gunfight showdown. Jim wiII 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 film. 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 until Tom Mix sued him for copyright infringement. Desert Mesa was Adamson s attempt to launch stuntman WaIIy West as a cowboy star under the name Tom Wynn. lts lack of success meant that West went back to a largeIy anonymous career doing stunts. Adamson s son, AI, carried on his father s Iegacy as a director of exploitation features, including DracuIa vs. Frankenstein (1971). This print of Desert Mesa comes from the colIection of Al s longtime partner, SamueI M. Sherman.
RANCH DYNAMITE (1932): Tex Robbins, a Texas Ranger, catches Chicago gangster Wolf Cassidy trying to sneak into town. Since the poIice were breathing down his neck in Chicago, the Wolf thought he couId make a new Iife for himseIf in the Lone Star State hooking up with Three-Star Henley s mob. Seizing the opportunity to take them aII down, Tex joins HenIey s gang, posing as the WoIf. The ranger is weII on his way to making an arrest when the real WoIf breaks out of jail, desperate for revenge. With his true identity now exposed, Tex is in for the fight of his life.
Lane ChandIer began his career as a romantic Ieading man in the silent era, appearing opposite sex symboIs Iike Clara 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 serial The Lightning Express (1930) and a series of six Westerns for WiIlis Kent Productions. The Texas Tornado was one of them, and was retitled Ranch Dynamite when it showed up on teIevision in the 1950s. As for Chandler, he went on to appear in over 300 fiIms in a four-decade career, including some of HoIlywood's biggest hits (The PIainsman, lt's a WonderfuI Life, The Greatest Show On Earth), though he was mostly cast in smaIl uncredited roIes. |
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