Man from Montana
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Cast & Crew
Ray Taylor
Johnny Mack Brown
Fuzzy Knight
Billy Lenhart
Kenneth Brown
Jeanne Kelly
Film Details
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Synopsis
In Montana, at a meeting of local cattlemen, Sheriff Bob Dawson upsets the assembly by informing them that he intends to obey a government order and uphold the rights of a wagon train full of homesteaders bound for their valley. Bob's stand is further complicated by his love for Linda, the daughter of old-time cattleman Winchester Thompson. Thompson openly defies the sheriff's edict, with the support of crooked Sam Dunham, whose gang is secretly planning to take over the valley from both the cattlemen and the homesteaders. Bob and his deputy, Grubby, ride ahead to warn the wagon train of the trouble that awaits them, and meet newcomers Joel Preston and his lovely daughter Sally. Dunham has his gang, which includes outlaws Del Kohler and Trig Salter, begin a campaign of terror against the ranchers and the homesteaders, and each group ends up blaming the other for what befalls them. After Thompson orders Joel and Linda off his land, Salter, under Dunham's orders, kills Joel, then tells Bob and Sally that the murderer was one of Thompson's men. Bob rides to the Thompson ranch and arrests the old cattleman for the murder. On their way to town, the two are ambushed by Salter, and Thompson is wounded. Linda and her father's ranch hands then arrive at the scene and accuse the sheriff of attempting to murder their beloved boss. They take Bob to town, and lock him up in his own jail to await "trial." Dunham then stirs the local cattlemen into forming a lynch mob that storms the jail, intent on hanging Bob. The sheriff, however, escapes with the help of Grubby and Sally. The three ride back to the Thompson ranch, where the old man is being nursed back to health by his daughter, and Bob arrives in the nick of time to save Thompson from an assassination attempt by Salter. Bob captures Salter and discovers that he is really a fugitive outlaw named Flash Watson. He then allows Salter to escape so that he, Sally, Linda and Grubby can follow the outlaw back to the Dunham ranch. There, Bob witnesses the crooked rancher paying off the outlaw for his evil deeds. After sending his friends back to town to form a posse of Thompson's men, Bob confronts Salter and Dunham, and a ferocious fight ensues. After Kohler and the other outlaws arrive, Bob is forced to barricade himself inside the ranch house until Grubby, Linda and the Thompson ranch hands can rescue him. Dunham and his gang are captured, and Thompson agrees to make a place in the valley for the homesteaders.
Director
Ray Taylor
Cast
Johnny Mack Brown
Fuzzy Knight
Billy Lenhart
Kenneth Brown
Jeanne Kelly
Nell O'day
William Gould
James Blaine
Dick Alexander
Karl Hackett
Edmund Cobb
Frank Ellis
Kermit Maynard
Jack Shannon
Murdock Macquarrie
Charles Mcmurphy
Crew
Bernard B. Brown
Everett Carter
Bennett Cohen
Will Cowan
Ralph M. Delacy
R. A. Gausman
Charles S. Gould
Frederick Hollander
Paul Landres
Frank Loesser
Jess Moulin
Jack Otterson
Milton Rosen
H. J. Salter
William Sickner
Charles Van Enger
Vera West
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According to early Hollywood Reporter production charts, William Sickner was the cameraman on this film. Modern sources include Blackjack Ward and Tex Phelps in the cast.
