By Frank Miller
Come On Danger!
Brief Synopsis
A woman turns outlaw to save her ranch.
Cast & Crew
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Robert Hill
Director
Tom Keene
Larry [Madden]
Julie Haydon
Joan Stanton
Rosco Ates
Rusty
Robert Ellis
Frank [Sanderson]
William Scott
Jim
Film Details
Genre
Western
Release Date
Sep
23,
1932
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Distribution Company
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
54m
Sound
Mono (RCA Photophone System)
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Film Length
6 reels
Synopsis
When Texas ranger Jim Madden hears that his younger brother Larry, a new recruit, has been ordered to investigate a case involving the brutal murder of a rich rancher, he asks his boss to give him the dangerous assignment instead. Eager to prove himself, naive Larry explodes with anger as Jim rides off to track down the suspected killer, cattle rancher Joan Stanton. That night, however, Larry discovers Jim's bullet-riddled body and swears revenge on Stanton. In town, Larry learns that wealthy rancher Frank Sanderson is offering a reward for the capture of Joan and rides to Sanderson's hacienda fortress to investigate. As he arrives, he sees Joan and her men running off a group of Sanderson's cattle and then follows her into the rancher's heavily guarded sanctuary. After accusing Sanderson of killing her father and stealing her cattle, Joan robs him of his cash supply. While escaping, she is cornered by Sanderson's men but is rescued by Larry, who is wounded in the process. Grateful for Larry's bravery, Joan takes him to her hidden valley hideout and nurses him. Larry, still unsure of Joan's innocence, hides his Ranger badge and begins to question her about Sanderson. After she tells him that Sanderson has been framing her, Larry convinces her to turn herself in to the Rangers. On their way back, however, they are pursued by both Sanderson's and her own men, who have found Larry's badge. Cornered, Larry turns Joan over to Sanderson and demands his reward money, but that night, Sanderson orders one of his men to kill Larry and take Joan over the Mexican border. Before he can execute the plan, however, Larry and Rusty, the Ranger's cook, fight with Sanderson and, with the help of Joan's men, defeat the murderers. Larry then rides back to the valley with Joan.
Director
Robert Hill
Director
Cast
Tom Keene
Larry [Madden]
Julie Haydon
Joan Stanton
Rosco Ates
Rusty
Robert Ellis
Frank [Sanderson]
William Scott
Jim
Frank Lackteen
Piute
Wade Boteler
Tex
Roy Stewart
Inspector Clay
Harry Tenbrook
Bill
Crew
Film Details
Genre
Western
Release Date
Sep
23,
1932
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Distribution Company
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
54m
Sound
Mono (RCA Photophone System)
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Film Length
6 reels
Articles
Come on Danger!
Tom Keene's chiseled looks made him a natural for Westerns, but his characters' peaceful ways never really caught on with the audiences attracted by the B Westerns in which he mostly starred. In his six low-budget Western at RKO, he stars as a Texas Ranger reluctantly assigned to bring in a woman (Julie Haydon) when a wealthy ranger is murdered and a note on the body incriminates her. Keene had started his career as an RKO Western star under Robert F. Hill's direction in 1931's Sundown Trail. Both would leave the studio the following year, with Keene's interest in playing a wide variety of roles keeping him in interesting roles for a while. Immediately after leaving RKO, he starred for King Vidor in his personal production Our Daily Bread (1934), now viewed as one of the most important films to deal with the great Depression. His co-star, Julie Haydon, had even less luck at RKO, where she had been hired as a threat to top star Ann Harding. When Harding's career declined, the studio had little for Haydon to do, so she returned to Broadway, where she delivered acclaimed performances in the original productions of The Time of Your Life and The Glass Menagerie.
By Frank Miller
By Frank Miller
Come on Danger!
Tom Keene's chiseled looks made him a natural for Westerns, but his characters' peaceful ways never really caught on with the audiences attracted by the B Westerns in which he mostly starred. In his six low-budget Western at RKO, he stars as a Texas Ranger reluctantly assigned to bring in a woman (Julie Haydon) when a wealthy ranger is murdered and a note on the body incriminates her. Keene had started his career as an RKO Western star under Robert F. Hill's direction in 1931's Sundown Trail. Both would leave the studio the following year, with Keene's interest in playing a wide variety of roles keeping him in interesting roles for a while. Immediately after leaving RKO, he starred for King Vidor in his personal production Our Daily Bread (1934), now viewed as one of the most important films to deal with the great Depression. His co-star, Julie Haydon, had even less luck at RKO, where she had been hired as a threat to top star Ann Harding. When Harding's career declined, the studio had little for Haydon to do, so she returned to Broadway, where she delivered acclaimed performances in the original productions of The Time of Your Life and The Glass Menagerie.
By Frank Miller
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Come On Danger! was the first of many Westerns that Tom Keene made for RKO. In 1942, Edward Killy directed Tim Holt in an RKO remake of the film. A 1939 RKO film, Renegade Ranger , which was also written by Bennett Cohen, has a similar plot to Come On Danger! but is not a remake. Modern sources add Bud Osborne, Roy Stewart, Nell Craig, Monte Montague and Flash, a horse, to the cast.
