Despite rumors to the contrary, there was nothing wrong with Tom Mix's voice. But as film historian Don Miller once put it "it was a 50-year-old voice, and one which reflected every minute of those 50 years." It was obviously also a middle-aged body that filled out the role of horse wrangler Tom Martin in The Fourth Horseman, arguably Mix's finest film for Universal, but that fact is much harder to swallow. Tom's dexterity doesn't seem to have suffered the years of hard cinematic abuse one bit and when he crashes through a window to save Margaret Lindsay from mean old Fred Kohler, the years positively vanish. As an action-melodrama, The Fourth Horseman suffers from the usual malaises of early talkies -- a stampede through town done in silent speed proves unintentionally comic rather than exciting -- but the opening train robbery is well-handled by veteran cameraman Daniel B. Clark and director Hamilton MacFadden elicits strong performances from, especially, Kohler, Lindsay, Helene Millard, and Duke R. Lee. The Kanab, UT, scenery adds to the production values, which seem generous for what essentially is a B-Western.