Cheyenne Roundup
Cast & Crew
Ray Taylor
Johnny Mack Brown
Tex Ritter
Fuzzy Knight
Jennifer Holt
Harry Woods
Film Details
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Synopsis
Gils Brandon and his fellow outlaws, Blackie Dawson, Slim Layton and Judge Edward Hickem, are ordered to leave Mesquite County by Sheriff Steve Rawlins. Before he leaves, however, Gils threatens to return and take his revenge on Steve. The outlaws then ride into the ghost town of El Dorado, where they buy fifty-one percent of the town from its owner, Cal Cawkins, and plan to cause a gold rush by "salting" the nearby mines. Bonanza Smith, Cal's prospecting partner, actually strikes gold, however, and El Dorado soon becomes a boom town. The new prospectors soon tire of the dishonesty and claim jumping of Gils and his partners, and so form a vigilante group and force Cal to write his old friend Steve for help. While his fellow crooks want to leave town, Gils insists on staying, as he has sent for his fiancée, Ellen Randall, and plans to settle down with her in El Dorado. Upon learning that Steve has been sent for, Gils rides off to kill the sheriff, but is himself mortally wounded by one of Steve's men. The dying Gils is discovered in an abandoned cabin by his twin brother Buck, and experiencing a change of heart, he asks his brother to help make El Dorado a decent town. Buck then meets Steve, and agrees to impersonate his brother in order to break up Gils's old gang. Buck and Steve go to El Dorado, where Buck tells the outlaws that Steve has agreed to work with them. Under pressure from Gils's partners, Buck is forced to break Gils's engagement to Ellen. When Buck begins to feel guilty about his treatment of his brother's fiancée, Steve agrees to romance Ellen so that she can forget Gils. Later, Buck learns that his partners are planning to jump Bonanza's claim, but Steve and the vigilantes arrive there too late, and the old prospector is killed by the outlaws' henchmen. Blackie comes to suspect Buck, and orders his men to follow him to Ellen's home, where they overhear Buck confess all. The outlaws capture Buck, but he escapes and rides into town to warn Steve and the others. Blackie, meanwhile, learns of Buck's deception and orders his men to break up the ongoing sheriff's election. In the ensuing fight, however, the outlaws and their men are captured. With law and order finally restored to El Dorado, Buck and Ellen decide to marry.
Director
Ray Taylor
Cast
Johnny Mack Brown
Tex Ritter
Fuzzy Knight
Jennifer Holt
Harry Woods
Roy Barcroft
Robert Barron
Budd Buster
Gil Patric
Jimmy Wakely Trio
Jimmy Wakely
Cyrus Bond
Scotty Harrel
Ken Duncan
Roy Brent
Michael Vallon
Lynton Brent
Crew
Elizabeth Beecher
Bernard B. Brown
Everett Carter
Elmer Clifton
Elmer Clifton
Ralph M. Delacy
Oliver Drake
Oliver Drake
R. A. Gausman
Otto Ludwig
Bernard Mcconville
Jess Moulin
Jack Otterson
E. R. Robinson
Milton Rosen
H. J. Salter
Melville Shyer
William Sickner
Jimmy Wakely
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While Robert Barron's character is listed as "Judge Hickenbottom" in the onscreen credits and by contemporary sources, he is called "Judge Edward Hickem" in the film. Modern sources include William Desmond, Kermit Maynard and Carl Mathews in the cast. Modern sources also claim that the picture is a remake of the 1940 Universal film Bad Man from Red Butte, also starring Johnny Mack Brown and Fuzzy Knight, and directed by Ray Taylor (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40; F3.0221); however, while the two films bear some similarities, they are not based on the same material.
