B Movie?


This has been called a "B" movie but I don't think so. Warners wasn't in the habit of lavishing expensive Technicolor on its B product in the 1940s. Here are plenty of Warners 'stars' that never quite made it -- and that's part of the attraction: Janis Paige and Wayne Morris who should have made it, Bruce Bennett, James Brown, Robert Hutton -- as well as dependable Alan Hale in what must be close to his last movie (along with The Adventures of Don Juan with Errol Flynn released the same year). Good too to finally see what B-cowboy Tom Tyler looked like in a supporting role. Definitely made to attract the younger set of its day, and diehard cowboy fans -- but at the "A" end of the double bill at a Saturday matinee.

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