Riders of Pasco Basin
Cast & Crew
Ray Taylor
Johnny Mack Brown
Bob Baker
Fuzzy Knight
Frances Robinson
Arthur Loft
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Lee Jameson is winning all the events at the rodeo when he receives a letter from his old friend, Caleb Scott, warning of trouble brewing at home in Pasco Basin. Returning home, Lee visits the Madison ranch where he sees his sweetheart, Jean Madison, and meets Matthew Kirby, a land promoter who has the support of Jean's father Joel. Lee incurs Kirby's wrath when he joins Kirby's opposition led by Scott, who as publisher of the town paper, has questioned the promoter's motives. When Scott prints an article attacking Kirby as a fraud, Kirby orders his thug Magee to attack the newspaper office and kill Scott. Lee captures one of Scott's assassins, but when the town sheriff, who is working with Kirby, lets the man escape, Lee decides to organize his own gang of vigilantes. In response, Kirby frames Lee for Madison's shooting and undertakes a campaign of arson and terror, which he blames on Lee. Kirby's campaign is so convincing that even Jean and Lee's friend, Bruce Moore, turn against him. When a determined Lee rallies his vigilantes, however, Kirby places his men at strategic spots in the street to protect himself as he tries to escape in a buckboard filled with money that he has collected from the ranchers. As the vigilantes battle Kirby's thugs, Lee pursues Kirby and brings him back to town. With Kirby exposed, the ranchers of the valley proclaim Lee a hero and he reconciles with Jean.
Director
Ray Taylor
Cast
Johnny Mack Brown
Bob Baker
Fuzzy Knight
Frances Robinson
Arthur Loft
Ted Adams
Frank Larue
William Gould
James Guilfoyle
Ed Cassidy
Lafe Mckee
Robert Winkler
Charles Morrison
Rudy Sooter And His Californians
Dick Rush
George Burton
Joseph Kamaryt
Ed Peil Sr.
William Alston
Francis Sayles
Gordon Hart
John Judd
Crew
Jesse Bastian
Ford Beebe
Bernard B. Brown
Everett Carter
R. A. Gausman
Harold H. Macarthur
Jack Otterson
Milton Rosen
Louis Sackin
Hans J. Salter
Melville Shyer
William Sickner
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
The working title of this film was Vigilante War. Although the onscreen credits list Jesse Bastian as sound technician, the Universal press release credits Jess Moulin with sound. Modern sources add Kermit Maynard, David Sharpe, and Hank Bell to the cast.
