Destry Rides Again
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Ben Stoloff
Tom Mix
Claudia Dell
Zasu Pitts
Stanley Fields
Earle Fox
Film Details
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Synopsis
Tom Destry, co-owner of the Destry-Brent Stage Line, apprehends a gang of robbers when they ambush his coach. In town, Tom, who is running for sheriff, hands over the crooks to Sheriff Wendell, unaware that Wendell and Brent staged the hold-up. Fearing Tom's well-executed arrests will win him votes, Wendell stages a fight between two of his men, Clifton and Clyde. When Tom intervenes, Clyde shoots at Clifton with Tom's gun. In court, Wendell and the gang conspire as witnesses, and Tom is sentenced to one-to-ten years in jail for intent to kill. Before being placed behind bars, Tom vows revenge against those who framed him, still unaware that Brent is guilty. Meanwhile, Tom's girl friend, Sally Dangerfield, and her father try to get him pardoned. Wendell is re-elected sheriff and is running for mayor when the governor pardons Tom. Fearing for their lives, all the gang members but Brent skip town. Still intent on revenge, Tom feigns a bad cough to lure the gang out of hiding. The ploy works and a few of the gang members, including the Ogden boys, begin to taunt Tom in a bar. To their surprise, he draws his gun, proving he is the quick-drawing, sharpshooter they remember. Wendell quickly escapes to the Dangerfield ranch and tells Sally and her father that Tom has killed the Ogden boys and is now after him. Tom arrives, however, and denies the charges, then tries to choke a confession out of Wendell, who is about to reveal who framed Tom when he is shot. Tom races after the gunman, who wounds Tom in the hand, then plummets into a river. On a nearby ranch, Willie, a young admirer of Tom, nurses his wound and helps him fight the remaining three members of the gang. Tom then scares one of them, Frank Warren, into incriminating Brent and arrives at the Dangerfield ranch just as Brent kisses Sally against her will. Willie follows with the three prisoners, and Tom accuses Brent and they fight. Brent tries to escape on Tom's loyal horse "Tony," but is thrown. Willie then leads the gang to the "hoosegow" as Sally and Tom look on.
Director
Ben Stoloff
Cast
Tom Mix
Claudia Dell
Zasu Pitts
Stanley Fields
Earle Fox
Edward Piel Sr.
Francis Ford
Frederic Howard
George Ernest
John Ince
Edward Lesaint
Charles K. French
"tony"
Andy Devine
Crew
Stanley Bergerman
Isadore Bernstein
Daniel B. Clark
Arthur Hilton
C. Roy Hunter
Robert Keith
Carl Laemmle Jr.
Carl Laemmle
Carl Laemmle
Thomas F. O'neill
Maurice Pivar
Richard Schayer
Film Details
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Notes
The viewed television print of this film, titled Justice Rides Again, lacked credits. The above credits were taken from a studio cutting continuity. In a news item on January 26, 1932, Film Daily refers to this film as When Destry Rides. The film was shot on location at the Los Turas Ranch, Los Angeles, and the railroad train exteriors were shot in El Segundo, CA. This was Tom Mix's first lead role in a talking picture. (He had a bit part in The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood, released March 28, 1932, .) The plot of this film differs significantly from the famous Destry Rides Again (1939), although both films are based on the same story.
