Frontier Justice (film)
| Frontier Justice | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Robert F. McGowan |
| Screenplay by | Scott Darling Harry S. Webb (uncredited[1] Homer King Gordon (additional dialogue) |
| Based on | the novel by Colonel George Brydges Rodney |
| Produced by | Walter Futter |
| Starring | Hoot Gibson |
| Cinematography | Arthur Reed |
| Edited by | Carl Himm |
| Music by | Lee Zahler |
Production company | Walter Futter Productions |
| Distributed by | Diversion Pictures Grand National Pictures |
Release date | 1 October 1935 |
Running time | 58 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Frontier Justice is a 1935 black-and-white Western film directed by Robert F. McGowan starring Hoot Gibson based on the novel by Colonel George Brydges Rodney[2]. Produced for Walter Futter's Diversion Pictures, it was rereleased by Grand National Pictures in 1937 and later reissued by Astor Pictures in the 1940s[3].
Plot
In order to seize his cattle ranch to turn it into a sheep pasture, a wealthy sheepman and a crooked doctor have the ranch owner Sam Holster certified insane and placed in an insane asylum. His son returns from five years in Baja California to stop the range war and set things straight using his six gun and a variety of mail order practical joke devices.
Cast
- Hoot Gibson ... Brent Halston
- Jane Barnes ... Ethel Gordon
- Richard Cramer ... Gilbert Ware
- Roger Williams... James Wilton
- John Elliott ... Ben Livesay
- Franklyn Farnum ... Lawyer George Lessin
- Lloyd Ingraham ... Dr. Close
- Joseph W. Girard ... Samuel Halston
- Fred 'Snowflake' Toones ... Snowflake (as Snowflake)
- George Yeoman ... Sheriff Sam Simon
See also
References
- ^ http://www.b-westerns.com/webb2.htm
- ^ http://jnjreid.com/cdb/gbrodney.html#update
- ^ p.206 Pitts, Michael R. Astor Pictures: A Filmography and History of the Reissue King, 1933-1965 McFarland, 19 Apr 2019
External links
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