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Law of the Pampas

USA 1939
produced by
Harry Sherman for Paramount
directed by Nate Watt
starring William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Sidney Toler, Steffi Duna, Sidney Blackmer, Pedro de Cordoba, William Duncan, Jo Jo La Savio, Glenn Strange, Eddie Dean, Anna Demetrio, The King's Men
written by Harrison Jacobs based on characters by Clarence E. Mulford, music by Victor Young

Hopalong Cassidy

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) personally sees to it that a herd of cattle is delivered to his friend Senor Valdez (Pedro De Cordoba), not just because Hoppy is such a good cowhand, but also because he suspects foul play in the deaths of Valdez' son and daughter - and soon enough, ha gathers some evidence that at least the son has by no means died in an accident, since the gun he accidently shot himself with does by no means match the bullet found in his body ...

Soon, Hoppy thinks he has found the culprit too - and he's right of course -, Merritt (Sidney Blackmer), Valdez' sinister son-in-law, who obviously wants to get Valdez' ranch in his hands and who spends way too much time with US-American thug Slim (Glenn Strange) to be innocent - but Merritt soon realizes that Hoppy is after him and uses his fiancée Chiquita (Steffi Duna), a naive but essentially good girl, against him until she successfully lures Hoppy into a trap ... at which point Merritt decides to not only shoot Hoppy but the girl as well.

Somehow though, Hoppy and the girl escape and in the finale it's Merritt and his henchmen against Hoppy, Valdez and Valdez' men fighting over Valdez' ranch, with the good guys winning of course, and Hoppy personally seeing to it that Merritt gets his just desserts ...

Russell Hayden plays his usual role as Lucky, Hoppy's sidekick, while Charlie Chan Sidney Toler provides the comic relief as ever-worrying gaucho (he actually made this film between two Charlie Chans).

 

Routine but not too bad B-Western with a routine but not too bad murder mystery plotline. Nothing great, but entertaining enough. The only question that remains is why this film was set in Argentinia when plot and locations are quite similar to pretty much any other Western and remarkably little effort is made to make the film look at least remotely exotic. Maybe someone just liked the title Law of the Pampas, which I think is pretty great by the way.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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