Border Vigilantes
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Derwin Abrahams
William Boyd
Russell Hayden
Andy Clyde
Frances Gifford
Victor Jory
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Hopalong Cassidy, foreman of the Bar-20 ranch, is summoned to Silver Center by his friend, Dan Forbes, who suspects that the vigilante group of which he is a member has been corrupted because they have been foiled at every attempt to stop robberies. Forbes confides in Henry Logan, the town leader and head of the vigilantes, who, unknown to Forbes, orders him and Hoppy shot. Forbes survives his injury and Hoppy gets the better of his assailant when he is accosted in Gunsight Pass. Hoppy shoots the man, Ed Stone, and leaves him for dead, then he and his companions, ranch hands Lucky Jenkins and California Carlson, continue into town. Knowing that the criminals are expecting him, Hoppy tells Forbes and his daughter Helen to pretend that they do not know them. After Hoppy, Lucky and California prevent a robbery attempt planned by Logan, Logan's gang fights back by terrifying the community with raids, fires and vandalism. Hoppy and Forbes arrange for a wagonload of silver to be switched to entrap the criminals. When the silver seems to have disappeared, however, suspicion falls on Hoppy, until they find that California loaded the wrong boxes onto the wagon and the silver is still at Forbes's house. Hoppy, Lucky and California finally corner Logan and his gang at their hideout and during a gunfight, Hoppy is shot in the shoulder. He then tricks the gang into surrendering by exploding bullets in a fire, which makes it sound as if they are outnumbered. Logan and his gang are arrested, and Hoppy, Lucky and California leave the Forbes ranch to return to the Bar-20.
Director
Derwin Abrahams
Cast
William Boyd
Russell Hayden
Andy Clyde
Frances Gifford
Victor Jory
Ethel Wales
Morris Ankrum
Tom Tyler
Hal Taliaferro
Jack Rockwell
Britt Wood
Crew
Chas. Althouse
Pauline Boucher
J. Benton Cheney
Sam Coslow
Henry Donovan
Jos. W. Engel
Russell Harlan
Emile Kuri
John Leipold
Earl Moser
Lewis J. Rachmil
Sherman A. Rose
Harry Sherman
Frederick Spencer
Irvin Talbot
Robert Warwick Jr.
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Notes
This film marked assistant director Derwin Abrahams' directing debut. According to Paramount press information, songwriter Pauline Boucher won first prize in a nationwide amateur songwriting contest sponsored by True Confessions magazine, which promised that her song would be included in this film. Hollywood Reporter news items note that the film was shot on location at the Monogram Ranch near Placerita Canyon, Newhall, CA and at Lone Pine, CA. A modern source includes Hank Worden, Hank Bell, Edward Earle, Al Haskell, Curley Dresden, Chick Hannon, Chuck Morrison and Ted Wells in the cast. For further information on the series, consult the Series Index, and see the entry for Hop-Along Cassidy in the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40; F3.1990.
