** SPOILERS ABOUND** Randy plays a Colt. 45 salesmen who gets jumped, framed and stole-on by sweaty coward Zachary Scott. Lloyd Bridges is excellent as a wimpy husband caught up with the .45 Gang who guns down his own wife to save himself from being ratted out! Alan Hale delivers a vicious dickdown to Zachary Scott when he catches him in a rare moment without the stolen guns. "What are ya' without these!" As he pummels him with the butt of his own pistols. Randy saves Chief Thundercloud early on and they become friends, "Close one Chief, you almost lost top-hair!" Chief then pops up throughout the movie to save Randy when he's in trouble.
Tons of rear projection. Heavy handed morals and historical inaccuracies abound but it's all good fun. Deliriously fast paced. Very cartoony and over the top, perfect for an early Saturday morning. Nice gun fetish imagery over the title and end credits.
From the Director of INVISIBLE AGENT (1942).
The Connecticut State Library's flickr stream has a bunch of pics from this -- some stills, but also some promo pieces that are neat, from the Colt Patent Firearms Co. archives. I like the one of Randy getting given his own Colt .45 -- he's goofing.
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The full Colt stream has stuff from other westerns, too, including Decision at Sundown.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctarchives/tags/coltspatentfirearmsmanufacturingco/