by Hans J. Wollstein
review
For once, PRC's trademark murky photography comes in handy, awarding the grimly titled Death Rides the Plains the prerequisite spooky look. The filmmakers were undoubtedly inspired by the Broadway sensation Arsenic and Old Lace, which had debuted back in 1941 and whose Brewster sisters kept a pile of dead bodies in the cellar. In Death Rides the Plains, boss villains, Ray Bennett and I. Stanford Jolley build a veritable graveyard beneath the ranch house. But there the similarity ends; the remainder of this "Lone Rider" entry belongs squarely to the all-too-familiar antics of Al St. John, whose "Fuzzy Jones" character may be mildly amusing but is no "Mortimer Brewster."
