Oklahoma Frontier
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Ford Beebe
Johnny Mack Brown
Bob Baker
Fuzzy Knight
Anne Gwynne
James Blaine
Film Details
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Synopsis
After being forced to shoot a rebellious cowboy friend in the line of duty, Jeff McLeod turns in his badge as U.S. Marshal. With his close friend, Windy Day, he starts for the famed Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma to join in the great land rush. Arriving at a small cow town where hundreds of settlers are swarming in a race for claims in the newly opened territory, Jeff meets Tom Rankin and his sister Janet, whom he has known since childhood. Jeff learns that their father has lost his ranch and agrees to help Tom and Janet stake out a new claim in section two, which their father has told them controls water rights to a large section of the plain. At a saloon that night, Jeff meets George Frazier and his henchman, J. W. Saunders, a pair of claim jumpers seeking the same tract of land as Tom and Janet. After Jeff refuses Frazier's bribe to reveal the location of the land, Frazier's men corner him and force him to draw the shortest route to the claim, but the map is fake and Jeff escapes. Visiting Tom at his wagon camp that evening, Jeff draws a real map and gives it to Tom. As Jeff prepares to leave the camp, Saunders kills Tom, steals the map and accuses Jeff of Tom's murder. On the strength of Saunders' accusation, Jeff is jailed and sentenced to hang for murder. With her brother dead, Janet is determined to file on the land. Learning that she must be married in order to file a claim, she brazenly marries Jeff in jail, but when he learns her motives, he pushes her away in disgust. Afterward, Windy convinces Janet of Jeff's innocence and together they plan his escape. On the morning of the land rush, Windy shouts that the rush is already under way, and as Janet races her wagon down the street, Jeff breaks away from his captors and leaps into the wagon. Jeff and Windy make the claim, and after staking it out in Janet's name, they capture Saunders' henchmen, who have followed them. They then return to town where Frazier is about to file his phony claim when Jeff retrieves his map and proves that Saunders killed Tom. After Frazier and Saunders are taken in to custody, Janet and Jeff prepare to file their claim together.
Director
Ford Beebe
Cast
Johnny Mack Brown
Bob Baker
Fuzzy Knight
Anne Gwynne
James Blaine
Robert Kortman
Charles King
Harry Tenbrook
Lane Chandler
Horace Murphy
Lloyd Ingraham
Joe De La Cruz
Anthony Warde
The Texas Rangers
Frank Mayo
Robert Cummings
Hank Bell
Dick Rush
George Magrill
Roy Harris
Crew
Jerome Ash
Ford Beebe
Bernard B. Brown
Ralph M. Delacy
R. A. Gausman
Jess Moulin
Jack Otterson
Albert Ray
Louis Sackin
Hans J. Salter
Pinky Tomlin
Edward Tyler
Film Details
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This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.
Notes
The working title of this picture was Outlawed Marshal. The above credits and plot summary were taken from a cutting continuity included in the studio records. Modern sources add Al Bridge, Hank Worden, Blackie Whiteford, George Chesebro and Tom Smith to the cast.
