According to a notable B-Western expert, the plot about a group of convicts paroled in order to fight crime was used at least ten times in as many years. If true, and there is no reason to doubt the claim, The Man From Tumbleweeds must rank near the top of that list. Bill Elliott makes the perfect tight-lipped supervisor of the motley group and Iris Meredith, as the heroine, is among the sexiest prairie flowers of all time. Add to that a climactic gun battle staged for optimal effect by former editor Joseph H. Lewis and you have one of the very best program Westerns of its day. For the record: Cult director Lewis, who earned his nickname by perpetuating this genre cliche, never once resorts to framing a shot through a wagon wheel in The Man From Tumbleweeds.