review for Cavalcade of the West on AllMovie

In his final Western for low-budget Diversion Pictures, veteran cowboy ace Hoot Gibson plays a pony express rider who discovers that his worst enemy is his own long-lost brother. As a child, Clint Knox (Jerry Tucker) and his mother Martha (Nina Guilbert) escaped a gang of bandits who killed Mr. Knox Steve Clark and abducted Clint's brother Asa (Barry Downing). Eleven years later, Clint (now Gibson) rescues Martha and pretty Mary Chrisman (Marion Shilling) from being ambushed by Ace (Rex Lease), a notorious highwayman. A gunfight ensues and Clint's life is saved when his pocket bible stops one of Ace's bullet. But when Ace, now Clint's prisoner, recites an illegible inscription in the book, Clint realizes that he is his brother. At the trial, Clint successfully convinces the jury to acquit Ace because of the young man's harsh upbringing in the hands of his kidnappers. Despite a meager budget, hit-and-miss direction from Harry L. Fraser and a hero no longer in the bloom of youth, Cavalcade of the West remains an enjoyable B-Western and a worthy conclusion to Gibson's long starring career.