Black Market Rustlers
Cast & Crew
S. Roy Luby
Ray "crash" Corrigan
Dennis Moore
Max "alibi" Terhune
Evelyn Finley
Steve Clark
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In a letter, Cattlemen's Association investigator Bill Barlow invites government agents Crash Corrigan, Denny Moore and Alibi Terhune to help him investigate rustlers who have been selling beef on the black market. Crash arrives just after rustler Slade kills Bill, and is then framed by Slade for the murder. Sheriff Harley releases Crash after Alibi shows him the letter from Bill, but they decide to pretend that Crash is still in jail in order to watch Slade's activities. Denny, meanwhile, is hired as a ranch hand at the Prescott ranch, which has been hard hit by the rustlers. One night, Crash slips out of the jail and visits the Prescotts, just as Slade drives by and attempts to shoot Prescott from his car. Crash and Denny then reveal their true identities to Prescott, who pledges his support. Crash and Alibi later search Slade's barn and soon suspect that Slade has been transporting stolen cattle in his truck. When Denny intercepts one of the rustlers' guards near the Prescott ranch, he suspects that a cattle raid is being planned and rounds up a posse. Later, Alibi cleverly avoids being drugged by saloon owner Corbin's bartender, but pretends to collapse and overhears Corbin's plans to raid Prescott's cattle before dark. Alibi escapes and reports to Crash, who arrests Corbin, the gang's ringleader, after a fierce fistfight. While the posse waits in hiding, Denny captures the rustlers' truck driver, and sends their friend Slim to drive the truck instead. Crash, Denny and Alibi hide in the back of the truck and come out shooting when the rustlers open the door. Slade and the rustlers are arrested and their guns are thrown into a scrap metal heap, while Crash urges everyone to buy meat from honest dealers.
Director
S. Roy Luby
Cast
Ray "crash" Corrigan
Dennis Moore
Max "alibi" Terhune
Evelyn Finley
Steve Clark
Glen Strange
Carl Sepulveda
George Chesebro
Hank Worden
Frank Ellis
John Merton
Frosty Royce
Jim Austin
"little" Jean Austin
Ingrid Austin
Art Fowler
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
The film opens with a foreword urging American citizens not to buy black market beef during the war. A modern source includes Stanley Price, Wally West, Carl Mathews, Tex Cooper and Claire McDowell in the cast.
