
During the gold rush days a wagon train is attacked by a gang of renegades. John Knox is killed and one of his young sons, Asa Knox, is kidnapped by the renegade leader. The other son, Clint, and his mother Martha escape and reach St. Joseph, Missouri. Clint grows up and becomes a crack rider for the Pony Express. The kidnapped brother, now known as Ace Carter, has been raised by the outlaws with a contempt for the law. He is an unsuccessful rival of Clint's for the Pony Expr... (Full plot summary below)
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During the gold rush days a wagon train is attacked by a gang of renegades. John Knox is killed and one of his young sons, Asa Knox, is kidnapped by the renegade leader. The other son, Clint, and his mother Martha escape and reach St. Joseph, Missouri. Clint grows up and becomes a crack rider for the Pony Express. The kidnapped brother, now known as Ace Carter, has been raised by the outlaws with a contempt for the law. He is an unsuccessful rival of Clint's for the Pony Express job, which fosters enmity between them. Ace holds up a stagecoach on which Martha Knox and Clint's sweetheart, Mary West, are passengers. Clint takes the trail and runs him down. Clint later learns Ace's true identity and saves him from a lynch mob. Because of the circumstances, Ace's captors relent, and the two brothers and their mother are reunited.
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| User ReviewBill TInteresting Hoot Gibson vehicle here as he volunteers for the new Pony Express being set up. But who is the mysterious man in black wanting to hold him up? This movie definitely takes it's time getting going, but it has some interesting tricks up it's sleeve, especially at the ending, to make this quite passable. Hoot's defininitely one of my fave Western guys. |
| User ReviewBruce BThis film came from The Mill Creek Western Legends 50 Movie Pack, pretty sure you will find this is a public domain film and can be watched free on the internet. A very early western where good guys dress in white and bad guys dress in black, Story opens up with some settlers going west for gold when they are robed, Pa is shot and killed, Mom is hit in the head the two children witness it all, one child is taken by the bandits the other is left behind. Many cuts in the film and if you don't keep up you will lose the story. Years later the pony express starts one guy in white is hired by pony express the other dressed in black is not, he robs the pony express and stage, he is later caught by the good guy in white who we find out right before he is to be hung he's the good guys brother and all is forgiven, Film made in 1936 and is of poor quality. 2 stars |
| User ReviewMatt MThe lives of two brothers separated at birth cross when one finds himself in the position of the outlaw and the other in the position of a pony express rider. The usual old fashioned feel good film with the usual formula, unlikely happy ending and religious undertones. It's short, so it doesn't have time to get dull. |