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Hidden Gold
USA 1940
produced by Harry Sherman for Paramount
directed by Lesley Selander
starring William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Minor Watson, Ruth Rogers, Britt Wood, George Anderson, Roy Bancroft, Ethel Wales, Lee Phelps, Eddie Dean, Ray Bennett, Jack Rockwell, Walter Long, Bruce Mitchell, Bob Kortman, Art Dillard, Cliff Parkinson, Merrill McCormick
screenplay by Gerald Geraghty, Jack Merserveau, based on characters by Clarence E. Mulford, musical direction: Irving Talbot
Hopalong Cassidy
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and his sidekick Lucky (Russell Hayden)
are called to a mining town by their friend Speedy (Britt Wood) after the
local stage carrying gold shipments has been robbed several times - and
interestingly only when carrying the gold of Colby's (Minor Watson) rich
mine. At first, Hoppy is eager to investigate, but his enthusiasm quickly
cools of when he recognizes Colby as an outlaw he once fought. And even
though Colby claims he has gone legit, Hoppy finds that hard to believe
and objectively, the circumstantial evidence speaks against Colby.
Hoppy only changes his mind when Colby's business partner Ackerman
(George Anderson) seems to be a bit too eager to persuade Colby to employ
Hendricks (Roy Bancroft), Ackerman's second in command, as his new
foreman, and instead Hoppy takes over as Colby's foreman. As it soon turns
out, Hoppy's hunch was right, it is really Ackerman and Hendricks who are
robbing Colby's gold shipments, and they are using a dried up mine of
their own as a cover. So Hoppy makes sure that the next stage carrying
Colby's gold is held up once more and that the outlaws get away with the
gold with no blood spilled on either side - and then he closes in on
Ackerman's mine with a posse, which leads to a giant shootout, a duel
between Ackerman and Colby (which Ackerman wins) and finally, a one-on-one
fistfight Hoppy versus Ackerman ... and guess who wins this one.
It's an ok B-Western, but it also lacks invention and is thus little
more than a routine production - so expect no surprises.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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