Wildfire

USA 1945
produced by
William B. David for Action Pictures/Lippert Pictures
directed by Robert Emmett Tansey
starring Bob Steele, Sterling Holloway, John Miljan, Eddie Dean, Virgina Maples, Hal Price, Sarah Padden, Gene Alsace, Francis Ford, William Farnum, William 'Wee Willie' Davis, John Bridges, Frank Ellis, Al Ferguson
story by W.C. Tuttle, screenplay by Frances Kavanaugh

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Horse traders Happy (Bob Steele) and Alkali (Sterling Hollloway) save Wildfire, a wild horse who is accused of stealing horses, from being shot and nurse the injured animal back to health. Then they go to the next town to investigate and find out who is accusing Wildfire of rustling and who are the real rustlers. - and soon enough the two of them together with the local Sheriff (Eddie Dean, singing a song or two) and his swetheart Judy (Virginia Maples) find themselves at odds with respected citizens Fanning (John Miljan) and Holker (Hal Price)   - who are apparently so much above suspicion that they manage to convince the local judge (William Farnum) to go against the Sheriff - but of course they are really the baddies who are behind all the rustling (and not Wildfire) ... but eventually, Happy and company manage to gather enough evidence to convince the judge of their righteousness and make sure that the baddies get their just desserts.

And in the very end, Happy sets Wildfire free ...

This film, one of the two CineColor films Bob Steele made in 1945 (The other was Northwest Trail), is a rather boring piece of B-Western cinema. Somehow the movie totally lacks excitement, the wild horse set-up is somewhere between uninteresting, unbelievable and ridiculous, and the action - a key element of Western cinema - is rather lame, while colour as such adds very little to the proceedings.

Rather disappointing.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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