Saturday, May 22, 2010

Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945)

Directed by Edward Killy and Wallace Grissell
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Lions Gate)

A better-than-average Zane Grey programmer thanks to unusual desert locales, some fancy dancin' to hot lead and a cute girl by the name of Audrey Long. The movie starts with a boy wandering out of the desert, his parents robbed and killed in their wagon train. He's got a single clue as to the killer: the crescent J brand on a dead horse. He's adopted by some friendly locals, but grows up to take revenge on the killers. He finds them in Arizona. In a familiar Zane Grey plot device, he takes up work on the ranch of the suspected killers, only to fall in love with the daughter. Don't worry, there is a happy ending.

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