![]() ![]() But sneaky Harry Worth has his own plans to be awarded the telephone contract if Moore misses his deadline-and Worth does all he can to see that Moore does. “CYCLONE ON HORSEBACK” (‘41 RKO) Dennis Moore and his sister Marjorie Reynolds need the horses Holt, Ray Whitley and Lee “Lasses” White are bringing in so they can complete the stringing of the telephone wire in the valley. “ROBBERS OF THE RANGE” (‘41 RKO) At one point Tim Holt tells leading lady Virginia Vale, “It must be a little hard for you to understand all this.” It is an involved plot as, lusting for land, crooked land agent LeRoy Mason and his range-rats, representing the railroad, frame Tim for the murder of a neighboring rancher when Tim refuses to sell his property. A remake of Ken Maynard’s “Whistlin’ Dan” (‘32). Watch for former stars Hal (Wally Wales) Taliaferro as the Sheriff, Bob Baker as his deputy, Buzz Barton, barely noticeable as a posse member, and perennial Gene Autry guitarist Frankie Marvin backing up Whitley during a musical number. They get help (and hindrance) from Betty Jane Rhodes who, for want of a job, sings in Fiske’s outlaw cantina. “ALONG THE RIO GRANDE” (‘41 RKO) Tim and his pals Emmett Lynn and Ray Whitley are out to avenge the murder of their friend and boss by joining the outlaw gang of rustler Robert Fiske (cold-heartedly excellent) and his gun-hands. Much of the outdoor action was filmed on location in Kanab, UT. Ernie Adams, as a comic-badman, was never better, and even gets to do his patented “squealer” bit. That is, until the real killer, with havoc in his holster, arrives. Through a set of circumstances, Tim winds up with Fix’s horse, leading the crooks to believe Tim is the killer-for-hire they sent for. In the desert, Fix runs across the Fargo Kid (Holt) who is on his way to join his pals. Crooked assayer Cy Kendall and fidgety henchie Ernie Adams send for gunman Paul Fix to kill a miner so they can buy his goldmine claim cheap from his widow-to-be and daughter. The story is a remake of RKO’s “Cheyenne Kid” (‘33) w/Tom Keene. The scenes where Tim’s pals Ray Whitley and Emmett Lynn try to sing their way out of jail are laugh-out-loud funny. The light comic touches in the screwball comedy-vein incorporated by director Richard Killy make this a most appealing Holt, and one of the most enjoyable B-westerns ever made. “FARGO KID” (‘40 RKO) One of Tim Holt’s most ingratiating happy-go-lucky roles that shows how good an actor he really was. The story by Bernard McConville (who’d written dozens of good ones for the 3 Mesquiteers, Gene Autry and George O’Brien) is an imposing one, fleshed out by Morton Grant who was involved in many of the following Holt pre-war scripts. It also boasts a story of A-western proportions as Holt, owner of a wagon train, fights off the unscrupulous schemes of Cliff Clark and his son Bud McTaggart to take over his business as well as all the trading posts in the area, creating a monopoly for father and son along the trade route. “WAGON TRAIN” (‘40 RKO) The film that established Tim Holt as a B-western star boasts a bigger budget than most B’s of the period with dozens of extras, large wagon train scenes and location settings in Kanab, UT. Bill Elliott-Monogram/Allied Artists Years ![]()
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