Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!
WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
Manthast Absolutely amazing
Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
weezeralfalfa The plot of this1935 Lone Star John Wayne oater makes no sense to me! Supposedly, the road from ? to Rainbow Valley was washed out by a flash flood, and the local criminal element wants it to remain that way, to aid in their criminal activities, and induce the gold miners to abandon their diggings for the criminals to take over. But, in the beginning ,Wayne rides over the 'trail' from ? to Rainbow Valley, and meets Gabby Hayes, stuck with his primitive car needing radiator water. Wayne empties his canteen and the two resume their journeys to Rainbow Springs, along a wide 'road'. Wayne foils an attack on the auto, and Gabby continues on toward Rainbow Valley, delivering the mail to the P.O. Obviously, the existing road is good enough for an auto to traverse, so what's the problem??!!........Also, things get confusing for me near the end. Supposedly, there is a road work gang ,the criminal gang, and a citizen mob converging on the road work site. But, it looks like the mob confronts the work gang, which looks like it is the criminal gang! The whole bandit gang is blown up as they scramble to get out the way, right to where the dynamite is buried. The head criminal has a fight with Wayne, and somehow accidently pushes the plunger for this dynamite. Wayne then uses the remainder of a dynamite, which he had fenagled from the gang, to finish building the road. See it at YouTube.
Uriah43 Filmed in 1935 this movie stars John Wayne as a cowboy named "John Martin" who is on his way to the small, isolated town of "Rainbow Valley". While riding his horse he happens to come across an old man by the name of "George Hale" (George Hayes) who tells him he needs water desperately for "Nellie". Figuring that he needs it for his horse, John gives him his canteen only to discover that "Nellie" is an automobile and George is the mailman for Rainbow Valley. Having added the water to his car's radiator George thanks John and tells him he will probably see him again in Rainbow Valley. Since both are headed that way John decides to follow George from a distance. It's at this time that he hears gunshots and notices that some outlaws on horseback are chasing after George. Naturally, John rides to the rescue and after taking on the crooks one by one escorts the now-wounded George to the doctor in Rainbow Valley. Once he gets to town he is informed that Rainbow Valley has been plagued by crooks and that the residents are in desperate need of someone who can fend off the outlaws trying to stop the workers from restoring the only road connecting Rainbow Valley with the nearest town 60 miles away. At any rate, rather than detailing the entire story I will just say that this was a decent Western B-movie all things considered. Besides being quite old it is also a bit short (about 52 minutes). But the acting was adequate enough and the movie turned out to be somewhat entertaining all the same. That said, I suppose it merits an average rating.
MartinHafer This is yet another B-western from John Wayne--who made a ton of these sort of films during the 1920s. What makes this one a bit different is the running time. At 52 minutes, this makes this one of his shortest--and oddly, the version I ed from the IMDb link was only 47--way too short even for a B-movie (which usually run from 55-65 minutes in length). I assume that some portion of the movie I saw was missing.John Wayne does what he always does in these films--he wanders into a new town and soon lands right in the middle of some evil gang activity. And, like most of these films, he teams up with good 'ol Gabby Hayes along the way. And, like many of his and Gene Autry's films, the time period in which this film is set is very ambiguous. While most ride around on horses, Hayes rides a Model T Ford and his daughter wears dresses circa 1930! Though anachronistic, this is not too unusual.Wayne ALWAYS plays a good guy and this time he's an undercover investigator sent by the governor. He's to figure out why there has been such a long delay in getting the road built to Rainbow Valley. Apparently, there is a gang involved and it's up to our hero to infiltrate the gang, get the road completed AND get the girl--all within 47 compact minutes.I'd give this one a 4, as it's not quite as good as Wayne's other films--mostly because it lacks plot development due to its odd run-time. Pleasant but certainly one of his lesser Bs.
beejer A routine "B" western in the Lone Star series of westerns Wayne made in the 30's. What sets this one apart is John Wayne as a "Singing" Cowboy. This was the time of the beginning of the Singing Cowboy era in "B" westerns (e.g. Gene Autry). Wayne's voice is obviously dubbed. He sure doesn't look comfortable serenading the heroine or warbling a tune while riding across the prairie. Fortunately for all concerned (especially the Duke) this experiment was quickly ended.Anyone who wants to hear the Duke's "real" singing voice should watch the opening credits of "Cahill U.S. Marshal".
