When a Man Sees Red
Cast & Crew
Alan James
Charles Buck Jones
Peggy Campbell
Dorothy Revier
Leroy Mason
Sid Saylor
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Synopsis
Mary Lawrence refuses to go out West to visit her uncle Jed, despite many entreaties, because she is a city snob. Jed sends his ranch foreman, Buck Benson, to New York to change Mary's mind, and while he is there, they receive word that Jed has died from a long illness. Mary and Buck get off on the wrong foot when he tells her that her painting is terrible and that she has neglected her uncle. She and her maid, Mandy, travel to Los Gatos, California to receive her inheritance. Jed's will leaves all his worldly possessions to her, on the condition that she remain at his ranch for one year with Buck as her guardian. Thereafter, Mary does everything contrary to Buck's orders. She befriends Dick Brady, who has been rustling the ranch's cattle, and insists that he stay at the ranch as a guest. Although Buck throws Brady off the ranch, Mary still persists in pursuing a romance with Brady, even though she has really fallen in love with Buck. Mary's friend, Barbara, arrives for a visit, and having befriended Buck years before, she flirts with him. Mary throws a formal party, during which she hopes to prove that Buck is in love with her, but when Brady crashes the party, she asks Buck not to turn him over to the sheriff. Buck reluctantly agrees, but it appears that Mary has lost him. The party continues through the morning when Buck gets a note from Mary saying she is meeting Brady by the river to reply to his marriage proposal. Buck brings the sheriff and all the ranchhands with him to the river, and while Brady's gang tries to rustle the herd, the ranch gang fights them. Meanwhile, Brady tries to force Mary to marry him. Mary cries out for Buck, who is shot by Brady but perseveres and sneaks up on him from behind. Before Brady can kill Buck, Buck's friend Ben kills him. Mary embraces Buck, who is weak from the gunshot wound, and an understanding is finally reached.
Director
Alan James
Cast
Charles Buck Jones
Peggy Campbell
Dorothy Revier
Leroy Mason
Sid Saylor
Libby Taylor
Frank Larue
Jack Rockwell
Charles K. French
Bob Kortman
William Steele
Silver, A Horse
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Notes
A Daily Variety article noted that production was delayed due to Buck Jones' illness. According to publicity records and news items, the film was shot on location in Kernville, CA, along the upper Kern River. This was Buck Jones' first feature Western with Universal. Jones starred in and produced seventeen westerns with Universal in the thirties, and directed two, For the Service and Black Aces.
