a5c7b9f00b Robert Emmett Tansey never wrote a plot he didn&#39;t get at least five versions out of over a period of 15 years or so, and this one is no exception with &quot;Arizona Days&quot; and &quot;Harmony Trail&quot; among the remakes. Government agent John Wyatt is searching for a counterfeit ring operating on the Mexican/Arizona border and joins Doc Carter&#39;s traveling medicine showa sharpshooter. Since Carter was recently released from prison, Wyatt is keeping one eye on him and both eyes on his daughter Linda who performs&quot;Natasha&quot; in John&#39;s shooting act. But Doc is searching for the former partner who framed him with the counterfeiting charges that unjustly sent him to prison. That man was Curly Joe Gale just up the road a piece in Los Piedros. Gale frames Wyatt and while he is escaping from the sheriff, Gale abducts Doc and Linda. Wyatt eludes the posse and crosses the border to get extradition rights from the Mexican Rurales Captain. The Captain has had his own man, Miguel, watching Gale and he promises Wyatt his government&#39;s support.Wyatt is mistakenly arrested by Mexican law officers while Gale heads for the Old Paradise Mine where he has the Carters prisoners. Will Wyatt get free again and arrive in time to save the Carters? Sent to find counterfeiters, John Wyatt joins Doc Carter&#39;s medicine show. They arrive in the town where Curly Joe runs his counterfeiting operation. Carter was once framed by Curly Joe and Curly Joe tries to get rid of him. But John foils his attempts and learning Curly Joe is the counterfeiter, goes after him. Like a slew of John Wayne B-movies recently aired on the Encore Channel, this one features a god-awful new musical track that practically ruins the film. The music is too loud, the wrong type of music, is played on modern electronic machines and is the exact same musical accompaniment you&#39;ll find on at least a dozen other Wayne films! Yes, the exact same sound track is used again and again! Also like a slew of other Wayne films (as wellGene Autry films now that I think of it), the film is set out West and while MOST of it looks like it was set about 1880-1890, there are tons of anachronisms! The leading lady wears modern dress and they drive about the west in a truck!! Oddly, in this and other films, when it comes to chasing the bad guys, they don&#39;t chase them in a car or truck but on horseback! It&#39;s all very bizarre but not terribly uncommon in cheap B-westerns where they often just didn&#39;t care about these details.<br/><br/>Wayne is looking for a traveling medicine show,he&#39;s a good guy investigating some counterfeiting ring. Instead of confronting the crooks at the show, he joins them and does trick shooting to attract customers. At the same time, he naturally falls for the boss&#39; pretty daughter. Eventually, it turns out that a baddie named &#39;Curly Joe&#39; is behind the phony money scam. No, this is NOT the same Curly Joe who was the really lame third Stooge in the late 1950s and 1960s.<br/><br/>This film is not among one of the best films of the era for John Wayne. While none of the films had very high expectations, they were moderately entertaining and fun. This one, however, was a bit duller than usual–mostly due to no interesting sidekick and an amazingly dull villain. The stunts are decent but there just isn&#39;t much to this one to make it anything other than a mediocre B-movie. John Wayne&#39;s final Lone Star cheapie has him playing a government agent with a huge hat trying to bust up a counterfeiting ring. He does so by joining the traveling medicine show of Dr. Carter (Earle Hodges) and his pretty daughter Linda (Marion Burns). They always had a pretty daughter in these things. Anyway, the bad guy&#39;s named Curly Joe. He&#39;s played by stuntman extraordinaire Yakima Canutt. At least you know the stunts are good. Hodges is funthe medicine show huckster. There&#39;s also quite a bit of comedy and some songs including one about suspenders that needs to be heard.<br/><br/>Is it just me or are those the loudest horse clops you ever heard? Also, I&#39;m not sure what era this was supposed to take place in. Lone Star wasn&#39;t known for caring about historical accuracy in these cheap B westerns. There were usually shots of telephone poles and the like in the background. Here there are 1930s-era cars and clothes but everything else says Old West. This western, like the other B&#39;s made in the &#39;30s, will seem pretty much like kids stuff today. But there is some fun to be had with it. Fans of the Duke might want to check it out. Avoid the version with the bizarre modern electronic score added.
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