John
Wayne, This John Wayne Western has a different twist. It starts with
Rod (Wayne) headed to Canada to find the long lost niece of his friend.
He is also going to see what happened to his friend’s brother who disappeared some years before.
On
the train he meets an old college buddy, Wabi (Noah Beery Jr.) His buddy
is involved in a poker game that goes bad. One of the players is shot,
and the other two blame him. He assumes the player shot has been
murdered. Wayne comes and helps him escape from the other two, and they jump from the train into the river; but just like that they are
fugitives.
They
still head north, and discover the friend’s brother, dead in a cabin
with his partner in a gold mine. They find the map to the mine. Now
they are not only looking for a girl, but also gold.
They
make it to the north, Where Robbie grew up, and meet a young woman (Verna Hillie) who
works there. Robbie has a thing for her. However in the conflict
between trading posts, this young woman is kidnapped, hoping she will
give them the combination to the safe where Rod stored his map to the
mine.
This
movie has something different—a canoe chase. It was really quite
exciting. And when the Canadian Mountie shows up to arrest our
protagonists, he is shot and almost goes over the waterfall.
There
is a big battle with much conflict and shooting between one trading
post, and the neighboring community who come to save the day.
I
didn’t like the abrupt ending. Rod discovers the girl at the trading
post is who he was looking for, but his friend withheld this information
because he was hoping to keep her around. He had a sense she would
leave him.
This
movie leaves some danglers at the end which I did not like. It ended
very abruptly like they had a time limit and were almost over their
time. However I can see why John Wayne and Western movie are so
popular. They are very exciting.
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