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A surprising delight from start to finish, Hidden Valley ranks among the best low-budget Westerns made in the early talkie era, in no small measure due to the innovative Robert North Bradbury who here stages a series of stunts with apparently no concern for life and limbs. Bradbury's son, Bob Steele, rises to the occasion as well, emerging as one of the better actors on Poverty Row. Steele is backed up by an equally fine supporting cast of veterans and only the rather juvenile leading lady Gertrude Messinger reminds the viewer that this is Monogram and not, say, Fox or Warner Bros. Archie Stout's camera records a couple of impressive stunts along the way, including a couple of examples of the later banned "running-W" horseback tumble.