The Man from the Rio Grande (1943)
Directed by Howard Bretherton / Howard P. Bretherton
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Man from Rio Grande stars Don "Red" Barry as movie cowboy star Lee Grant. The plot finds Grant coming to the rescue of 8-year-old skating star Twinkle Watts (playing herself), who is being cheated out of an inheritance by scheming John King (Harry Cording). What follows is an unsettling mixture of traditional shoot-'em-up fare and ice-capades stunting. Twinkle Watts was an acquired taste, to say the least, but Republic insisted upon featuring the nimble-footed tyke in the next three Don "Red" Barry westerns. Perhaps as a result, the Barry series came to an abrupt end in late 1943.
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death, bad-guy, brother, capture, cattle, child, cowboy, good-guy, ice-skating, inheritance, outlaw [Western], ranch, scheme, sidekick, man
