Rogue of the Range

Rogue of the Range
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Directed byS. Roy Luby
Written byEarle Snell (adaptation)
Earle Snell (story)
Produced byA. W. Hackel
StarringJohnny Mack Brown
Lois January
CinematographyJack Greenhalgh
Edited byS. Roy Luby
Distributed bySupreme Pictures
Release date
  • April 25, 1936 (1936-04-25)
Running time
58 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Rogue of the Range is a 1936 American Western film directed by S. Roy Luby and starring Johnny Mack Brown, Lois January and in her only film, Phyllis Hume, Miss California 1936 and first runner-up for Miss America, where she used the name Phyllis Dobson.[1][2] The film is also known as Spider and the Fly in the United Kingdom.[3]

Plot

Dan Doran robs a stagecoach before a gang of robbers does, then meets a woman driving a runaway wagon with her father dead in the back of it. Doran is caught and sent to prison for 20 years, but he breaks out with a fellow prisoner and joins a robbery gang in the same area where he came from.

Cast

Reception

In a very brief review, TV Guide found that "Brown poses as an outlaw but is really a lawman in this below-par programmer".[4]

Notes

  1. ^ p. 49 Brooker, John The Happiest Trails Lulu.com 9 February 2017
  2. ^ Pitts, Michael R. (September 17, 2015). Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1036-8.
  3. ^ p.384 Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies McFarland 30 July 2005
  4. ^ "Rogue of the Range". TVGuide.com. Retrieved September 19, 2024.
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