DEATH RIDES THE PLAINS (DVD) DVD

Death Rides the Plains
Serial killers are on the loose in this "Lone Rider" entry from PRC reportedly based on the exploits of a real-life 1870s roadhouse operator. A couple of crooks, Ben Gowdey (Ray Bennett) and Grogan (I. Stanford Jolley) have repeatedly sold the Circle C Ranch to unsuspecting buyers, whom they summarily rob and kill before signing the papers. Enter Fuzzy Jones (Al St. John), whose cousin Luke was one of the unlucky would-be ranchers, and Rocky Cameron, alias "The Lone Rider," who goes undercover as a fellow outlaw to catch the murderers. In other words: the usual. Busy B-Western heroine Joan Barclay was for unknown reasons billed Nica Doret for this film only. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

Cast Fuzzy St. John as Fuzzy Jones Nica Doret as Virginia Ray Bennett as Ben Gowdey I. Stanford Jolley as Rogan George Cheseboro as Trent John Elliott as Marshal Kermit Maynard as Jed Charles "Slim" Whitaker as Sheriff Karl Hackett as Simms

Crew Sam Newfield - Director Holbrook Todd - Editor Robert C. Cline - Cinematographer Sigmund Neufeld - Producer Patricia Harper - Screen Story Joseph O'Donnell - Screenwriter

Death Rides the Plains
For once, PRC's trademark murky photography comes in handy, awarding the grimly titled Death Rides the Plains the prerequisite spooky look. The filmmakers were undoubtedly inspired by the Broadway sensation Arsenic and Old Lace, which had debuted back in 1941 and whose Brewster sisters kept a pile of dead bodies in the cellar. In Death Rides the Plains, boss villains, Ray Bennett and I. Stanford Jolley build a veritable graveyard beneath the ranch house. But there the similarity ends; the remainder of this "Lone Rider" entry belongs squarely to the all-too-familiar antics of Al St. John, whose "Fuzzy Jones" character may be mildly amusing but is no "Mortimer Brewster." ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
 

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General Specifications: Language Options: Subtitle Options: Sound Processing: Additional Features: none specified MPAA Rating: DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: Content Length: 52 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 1. Chapter 1 [9:04] 2. Chapter 2 [9:28] 3. Chapter 3 [9:32] 4. Chapter 4 [7:58] 5. Chapter 5 [8:11] 6. Chapter 6 [5:59]