Trigger Law
Cast & Crew
Vernon Keays
Bob Steele
Hoot Gibson
Beatrice Gray
Ralph Lewis
Ed Cassidy
Film Details
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Synopsis
United States Marshals Bob Steele and Hoot Gibson ride to the town of Eggleston, Arizona, to investigate the killing of Bob's father, the manager of the local stagecoach line. On the trail to Eggleston, they witness a gang of outlaws attack a stagecoach. After chasing away the robbers, Bob and Hoot are thanked by the grateful passengers, Sally and Tom Buchanan, who are traveling to town to purchase a ranch, and Kelso McGuire, the powerful businessman who controls the town. As they near Eggleston, Bob and Hoot then discover the body of Furness, a rancher who had opposed a band of lawless men bent on driving the ranchers from their land. After Bob and Hoot help Sally and Tom establish their ranch, the other ranchers ask them to form a vigilante group to rid the county of outlaws. Bob and Hoot are reluctant to intervene until McGuire accuses Randall, the new manager of the stageline, of murdering Furness and incites a mob to lynch him. After Bob and Hoot save Randall from the mob, Randall produces a letter from Bob's father, asking for help in fighting the claim jumpers. Suspecting that McGuire is behind the lawlessness plaguing the territory, Bob and Hoot trick him into confessing that he killed Bob's father and ordered Furness' murder. With McGuire and his men behind bars, law and order is restored to Eggleston.
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Director
Vernon Keays
Cast
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Bob Steele
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Hoot Gibson
Beatrice Gray
Ralph Lewis
Ed Cassidy
George Morell
Bud Osborne
Terry Frost
Jack Ingram
George Eldridge
Pierce Lyden
Lane Chandler
Crew
Charles J. Bigelow
Harry Eccles
John C. Fuller
Glen Glenn
Victor Hammond
E. R. Hickson
Marcel Lepicard
Lindsley Parsons
Herman Pett
Frank Sanucci
Byron Seawright
Vin Taylor
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Film Details
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Notes
The working title of this film was Frontier Frameup. Trigger Law, the final title, was also the working title of the 1944 Monogram film The Utah Kid (see below). For additional information on "The Trail Blazers" series, please consult the Series Index and see the entry below for Wild Horse Stampede.
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