Frontier Justice (film)

Frontier Justice
Directed byRobert F. McGowan
Screenplay byScott Darling
Harry S. Webb (uncredited)[1]
Homer King Gordon (additional dialogue)
Based onthe novel by Colonel George Brydges Rodney
Produced byWalter Futter
StarringHoot Gibson
CinematographyArthur Reed
Edited byCarl Himm
Music byLee Zahler
Production
company
Walter Futter Productions
Distributed byDiversion Pictures
Grand National Pictures
Release date
  • 1 October 1935 (1935-10-01)
Running time
58 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Frontier Justice is a 1935 black-and-white Western film directed by Robert F. McGowan starring Hoot Gibson based on the novel by Colonel George Brydges Rodney.[2] Produced for Walter Futter's Diversion Pictures, it was rereleased by Grand National Pictures in 1937 and later reissued by Astor Pictures in the 1940s.[3]

Plot

In order to seize his cattle ranch to turn it into a sheep pasture, a wealthy sheepman and a crooked doctor have the ranch owner Sam Holster certified insane and placed in an insane asylum. His son returns from five years in Baja California to stop the range war and set things straight using his six gun and a variety of mail order practical joke devices.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "The Webb Family in Hollywood".
  2. ^ "Collecting Delaware Books - George Brydges Rodney, Delaware's Western Writer".
  3. ^ p.206 Pitts, Michael R. Astor Pictures: A Filmography and History of the Reissue King, 1933-1965 McFarland, 19 Apr 2019