''Rogue of the Range'' is a 1936 American

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film directed by S. Roy Luby and starring

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and in her only film, Phyllis Hume,

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1936 and first runner-up for

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, where she used the name Phyllis Dobson. The film is also known as ''Spider and the Fly'' in the

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Plot

Dan Doran robs a stagecoach before a gang of robbers does, then meets a woman driving a runaway wagon with her father dead in the back of it. Doran is caught and sent to prison for 20 years, but he breaks out with a fellow prisoner and joins a robbery gang in the same area where he came from.

Cast

as Dan Doran *

as Stella Lamb * Stephen Chase as Lige Branscomb *Phyllis Hume as Tess *George Ball as Jim Mitchell *

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as Henchman Sloan *

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as Sheriff Tom *Frank Ball as John (express agent) *Oscar Gahan as Stage guard

Reception

In a very brief review, ''

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'' found that "Brown poses as an outlaw but is really a lawman in this below-par programmer".

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* * 1936 films 1936 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Films directed by S. Roy Luby 1930s English-language films 1930s American films English-language Western (genre) films {{1930s-Western-film-stub