More robberies on the Arizona stagecoach has the law working overtime. The stagecoach belongs to pretty Luana Walters so that adds a vulnerability to its future, especially with her stern aunt Kathryn Sheldon (the poor man's Edna May Oliver, at least in this film) watching her every move and sniffing constantly out of her no nonsense hatchet face. This is the first film in a Monogram series focusing on the aging U. S. marshal Buck Roberts (Buck Jones) who created the rough riders along with Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton to get behind the robberies.
I don't think it was a coincidence that they created a character named Bat Madison, a play on the legendary Bat Masterson. The villains are your typical one dimensional bandits, dressed in dark clothing and with long dark mustaches to identify themselves as the bad guys. Tristram Coffin is the leader of this gang, his screen name as appropriate to B westerns as the British Tod Slaughter was to B horror melodramas. Adequate for western fans, but outside of a few minor surprises, nothing special.
I don't think it was a coincidence that they created a character named Bat Madison, a play on the legendary Bat Masterson. The villains are your typical one dimensional bandits, dressed in dark clothing and with long dark mustaches to identify themselves as the bad guys. Tristram Coffin is the leader of this gang, his screen name as appropriate to B westerns as the British Tod Slaughter was to B horror melodramas. Adequate for western fans, but outside of a few minor surprises, nothing special.