''The Lawless Frontier'' is a 1934 American Monogram

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film directed by

Robert N. Bradbury Robert North Bradbury (March 23, 1886 – November 24, 1949) (born Ronald E. Bradbury) was an American film actor, director, and screenwriter. He directed 125 movies between 1918 and 1941, and is best known for directing early " Poverty Row"-produ ...

and starring

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, Sheila Terry,

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, and

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. It was the tenth of the Lone Star westerns. The picture was made on a budget of $11,000, shot in less than a week at Red Rock Canyon north of Los Angeles, and released by Monogram on Nov. 22, 1934. The film remains an unusual showcase for Earl Dwire in the lead villain's role.

Plot

Aged prospector Dusty and his vivacious granddaughter Ruby have a ranch. A treacherous gang of crooks led by the notorious Pandro Santi have designs on the girl. When Santi shows up with a horse as a gift for Ruby, as a prelude to an abduction, he finds the ranch deserted. There is a secret passage from the house, and the girl used it to overhear the gang’s plans. Her father trusses her up like cargo, and straps her on the back of a horse and gets away from the gang. On their way into town, they cross a river and the girl almost drowns, saved by stranger John Tobin. Together they elude the outlaws and make it to town. The sherif is suspicious that Tobin is part of Santi’s gang, or a freelance bandit out on his own. Tobin sneaks off to go after the bandits. He captures Santi after separating him from the gang end presents him to the sheriff. After some implausible events, Santi escapes, and Tobin once more is suspected of being a bandit. Escaping an arrest and confinement, he follows Santi into the desert, and catches up in time to see the outlaw reach a grisly end. The rest of the gang are rounded up and Tobin ends the story as the new sheriff, married to the girl.

Cast

as John Tobin * Sheila Terry as Ruby *

Jack Rockwell Jack Rockwell Trowbridge (October 6, 1890 – November 10, 1947) was an American film actor who was born in Mexico. He appeared in over 250 movies, mostly Westerns, between 1927 and 1947. Rockwell's older brother was character actor Charles ...

as Sheriff Luke Williams *

as Dusty (credited as George Hayes) *

as Pandro Zanti, alias Don Yorba *

Jay Wilsey Jay Wilsey (February 6, 1896 – October 25, 1961) was an American film actor (born Wilbert Jay Wilsey). He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1924 and 1944. He starred in a series of very low-budget westerns in the 1920s and 1930s, billed as B ...

as second Zanti henchman (credited as Buffalo Bill Jr.) *

Yakima Canutt Enos Edward "Yakima" Canutt (November 29, 1895 – May 24, 1986) was an American champion rodeo rider, actor, stuntman, and action director. He developed many stunts for films and the techniques and technology to protect stuntmen performing them ...

as Joe, Zanti's henchman *

Gordon De Main Gordon De Main (born Floyd Wood; September 28, 1886 – March 5, 1954)''Who Was Who on Screen'', p. 119 c.1977 by Evelyn Mack Truitt *note his publication claims his date of birth as 1897-March 5, 1967/ref> was an American film actor. He w ...

as Deputy Miller (credited as Bud Wood)

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