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An above-average entry in Columbia's Durango Kid series, Both Barrels Blazing is noisy, slam-bang action fare that only pauses briefly for handsome sidekick Tex Harding and a harmony group calling themselves "The Jesters" to perform such numbers as "A Lonely Cowboy", "Sidekick Joe," and "Cowboys and Indians". Always at the ready with gun or fists, Charles Starrett leaves the romance to Harding and leading lady Pat Parrish, the latter an especially fetching member of Columbia's apparently limitless stable of starlets. But although there are solid performances from the always watchable Alan Bridge as the Boss Villain, Charles King as his chief henchman, and sundry other B-Western regulars, Both Barrels Blazing belongs wholeheartedly to Emmett Lynn, a veteran burlesque comic-turned-B-Western supporting player and occasional sidekick. Lynn is quite simply marvelous here, both as the suicidal panhandler and his newly rich alter ego, a tour de force performance rarely awarded character actors in this type of low-budget fare.