Directed by Ray Taylor
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, VCI Entertainment)
Despite having one of the best titles ever for a western, it's a standard programmer with B movie hero Johnny Mack Brown. In fact, his sidekick Fuzzy Knight gets more screen time than the marquee name. It's a familiar tale of gold prospectin' in California, with bad guys jumpin' claims and killin' folk on the way to file a deed. Fuzzy makes his own strike, but falls off his horse when shot at by the bad guys. He loses his memory and thinks he is in the Civil War. Ho hum. The title comes from "the most famous cowboy ballad" (so says Wikipedia), here performed around a campfire by Jimmy Wakely and his Rough Riders. Unfortunately Fuzzy also sings a nonsense song accompanied only by his "squeeze box".
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