Border Vengeance
4.4 /10 1 Votes
Director Ray Heinz Screenplay Forbes Parkhill Duration Language English | 4.2/10 IMDb Genre Western Story by R. Craig Christensen Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date June 5, 1935 (1935-06-05) (US theatrical) Based on The Return of the Muley Kid
by R. Craig Christensen Writer R. Craig Christensen (novel) Cast Reb Russell (Peeler Benson, aka The Muley Kid), Mary Jane Carey (Sally Griswold), Kenneth MacDonald (Flash Purdue), Clarence Geldart (Sam Griswold), Pat Harmon (Tex Pryor), Norman Feusier (Old Man Benson)Similar movies Vengeance Valley (1951), The Texas Rangers (1936), Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935), Four Faces West (1948), Hells Heroes (1929) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A cowboy (Reb Russell) springs into action when a goon (Kenneth MacDonald) terrorizes a family.
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Border Vengeance is a 1935 American western B movie directed by Ray Heinz, written by Forbes Parkhill based upon the novel The Return of the Muley Kid by R. Craig Christensen. The film had its premiere on June 1, 1935 and was released to theaters on June 5.
A rancher is murdered after discovering that 40 head of his cattle have been rustled. A neighboring family is accused of the crime and flees across the border, then tries to find the real killers to clear their name.
Background
The project starred former football player Lafayette H. "Reb" Russell, and was filmed in 1934 by Willis Kent, an independent filmmaker known for his low budget exploitation melodramas.
Plot
A rancher is murdered by Flash Purdue (Kenneth MacDonald) after he catches Flash in the act of rustling his cattle. Flash diverts attention from himself by accusing the nearby Benson ranch of being the ones who perpetrated the deed. When his family is accused, Peeler Benson (Reb Russell) shoots at Flash and hits his ear. As a mob grows, he is able to get to his family in time to warn them so that they are able to escape across the border to safety. Hoping to clear his familys name, Peeler decides to stay behind, and joins a traveling rodeo circuit under the name The Muley Kid. Five years later he returns to town and is captured by Flash, who intends kill him out of vengeance for the injury to his ear.
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Critical reception
According to Hans J. Wollstein of Rovi, even as "bottom-of-the-barrel filmmaking on all fronts", the film did have good points. The climatic finale of a nighttime shootout was "quite effective", and with "blood oozing", it was one of the few films of its genre to show the effects of a bullet on its victim. However, the padding out of the film by its inclusion of rodeo footage of former Western hero Rex Bell and horse stunt and trick rider Montie Montana "manages to drag out the 58 minutes of running time almost beyond human endurance".
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