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If I comment this item, it's only because it has not been commented yet and also because it was made by the great Joseph H Lewis, the famous director of GUN CRAZY, SO DARK THE NIGHT, THE BIG COMBO, and also many others great little film noirs or westerns starring Randolph Scott.

I watched this one, I have in my collection since two decades, only because I intended to see how Lewis put his mark in it. And I found some interesting angle cameras shots, during a chariot stampede - with the camera from below - and also some indoor sequences. I don't know the technical names to describe, but we don't see that in other B westerns which, I have already said that in my comments, are nearly all the same. Always topics about big land owners who want to get rid off petty ones or, as in this movie, a freight line that could jeopardize his business.

Always the same. Boring but not charmless...

And I guess that's here the authentic story of America. HEAVEN'S GATE in a lesser scale. And there was thousands of these schemes in westerns.

Herbert Rawlinson and Dick Curtis are rival heads of freight hauling companies where the ruthlessness of one leads to the death of the other. After Rawlinson is murdered, his top driver (Johnny Mack Brown) has to fight to bring the killer to justice, but it's going to take a lot of shootouts and intrigue for that to happen. Rawlinson's daughter (Nell O'Day) joins forces with Brown and his sidekick Fuzzy Knight in this endeavor, but the results are predictable and frequently boring.

They had both been fighting over a telegraph company contract, and with Rawlinson dead, the rivals move in to force O'Day to drop out of the business, eventually using sabotage. Adequate for action but Knight's comedy is basically just a bunch of recurring gags dealing with his clumsiness. Even at under an hour, the film drags quite a bit although Brown is a good action hero. Worth catching for fans of the genre and actors, but it's pretty cumbersome overall.