Hostile Country
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Cast & Crew
Thomas Carr
Jimmie "shamrock" Ellison
Russ "lucky" Hayden
Raymond Hatton
Fuzzy Knight
Betty Adams
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Synopsis
While riding through an isolated stretch of ranch country, foreman Deacon Hall and a ranch hand are surprised to discover that the pass through which they usually bring their stock has been boarded up by rancher Henry Oliver, who recently arrived in the area. While Deacon is reporting this news to his employer, rancher Ann Green, cowboys Shamrock Ellison and Lucky Hayden ride into the area. Shamrock has a letter from his stepfather, Oliver, whom he has never met, offering him his late mother's share in his ranch. They are stopped by Ann's men, and when Shamrock tells Ann that they are looking for work, Ann asks her friend, Colonel Pat Higgins, to give Shamrock and Lucky jobs on his ranch. Meanwhile, Oliver's men are visited by Tom and Ed Brady, who request additional gunslingers to help them guard the pass. Just then, Shamrock and Lucky arrive at Oliver's ranch and are ordered away at gunpoint. Shamrock and Lucky then ride into town and stop at the saloon, and when a man asks to join Shamrock's poker game, the bartender identifies him as Oliver. Oliver is caught cheating and pulls a gun on Shamrock, but Lucky shoots and kills him, and the two friends escape. Because Shamrock and Lucky are later seen riding in the company of the Brady boys, the sheriff and his posse search the Brady ranch for them but find nothing. As soon as the posse leaves, Tom brings Shamrock and Lucky up from the cellar and searches them, finding the letter from Oliver. Ed says a jury would never believe that Oliver's shooting was self-defense after seeing this letter, and Shamrock pretends to agree to join the Brady gang. The next day, at the sheriff's office, Lane, a government agent who is interested in buying Ann's horses, says immediately head back East with the horses. Ann, Deacon and the colonel try to tear down the barricade, but Brady's men stop them, and during the ensuing gunfight, Shamrock and Lucky ride up and order Brady's men to stop shooting. After Shamrock heads off to Oliver's land, Lucky tells Ann that Oliver was his friend's stepfather. Deacon knocks Lucky out and sends for the sheriff, but when they are back at Ann's ranch, she looks the other way as Lucky escapes. Meanwhile, Shamrock searches Oliver's ranch, and he is about to leave when a noise alerts him to a hidden passage to the cellar, where he finds an old man who claims to be Oliver. He says a man named Knowlton must have been using his name and explains that the Brady gang kidnapped him before he ever reached town, so none of the townspeople know what he looks like. The Brady boys are waiting for them when they emerge from the cellar, and Ed says he has forged a will from Oliver that leaves everything to him. Shamrock and Oliver are being forced to dig their own graves when Lucky shows up and rescues them. After dynamiting the barricade, Shamrock and Lucky keep the Brady gang at bay while Ann's herd is driven through, then help the sheriff and his posse capture the outlaws. In town, Shamrock hands Ann a check from Lane, and he and Lucky argue over which one of them should marry her.
Director
Thomas Carr
Cast
Jimmie "shamrock" Ellison
Russ "lucky" Hayden
Raymond Hatton
Fuzzy Knight
Betty Adams
Tom Tyler
George Lewis
John Cason
Stanley Price
Stephen Carr
Dennis Moore
George Chesebro
Bud Osborne
Jimmie Martin
J. Farrell Macdonald
I. Stanford Jolley
Cliff Taylor
Judith Webster
George Sowards
James Van Horn
Crew
F. O. Collings
Noble Craig
Archie Dalzell
Jimmy Doolittle
Harry Eckles
Glen Glenn
Walter Greene
Bert Henrikson
Morree Herring
Frank Jenkins
Murray Lerner
Ray Mercer
Ernest Miller
Theodore Offenbecker
Ron Ormond
Ron Ormond
Fred Preble
Maurice Tombragel
Ira Webb
Gloria Welsch
Hugh Winn
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This film was the first in a number of Lippert westerns starring Jimmie "Shamrock" Ellison and Russ "Lucky" Hayden. Modern sources add Wally West, Carl Mathews and Ray Jones to the cast.
