Lone Star Law Men (1942)
Directed by Robert Emmett Tansey
Genres - Western |
Release Date - Dec 5, 1941 (USA - Unknown) |
Run Time - 58 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
After several years of mediocre westerns, cowboy star Tom Keene finally managed to find a winning formula in his 1941-42 vehicles for Monogram. Lone Star Law Men stars Keene as a deputy US marshal, sworn to help his boss rout a gang of border outlaws. Our hero elects to go undercover by joining the crooks himself-an old ploy, but one that works beautifully here. For the rest of the film, Keene has quite a time staying on camera with such formidable scene-stealers as comic sidekick Frank Yaconelli and all-around heavy Charles King as competition. Like many Tom Keene oaters of the period, Lone Star Law Men gives over a goodly amount of screen time to moppet Sugar Dawn, whom Monogram was obviously grooming for bigger things (which never materialized).
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bad-guy, cowboy, good-guy, lawman, outlaw [Western], police, deputy, man, marshal, stars [celebrities]