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Riding Shotgun (1954) Directed by André De Toth

Genre: Western

After members of his family are killed by the Maraday Gang during a stagecoach robbery, Larry Delong takes a job as stage guard in hopes that he will meet up with the outlaws. After he is captured by the bandits, his shot-up stage is returned to the town by the gang in order to draw the authorities out of town. After being left for dead, Delong escapes to warn the townspeople of an imminent raid by the outlaws. They don't believe his story and, in fact, accuse him of complicity in the stage robbery, tasking the town's remaining deputy with arresting him. A besieged Delong hides out in a local saloon before making his next move.

Director André De Toth, who actually had ranch experience despite his Hungarian origins, obviously took great satisfaction in finding such a variety of effective angles and pieces of western imagery to present what is a well constructed story. When our weathered hero has to shoot out the candle in Fritz Feld's "dirty little cantina" it not only provides a chance for master cameramen Bert Glennon to do an effective light change but it also gives us a couple of reels of the disturbing image of the blackened door-way that no one in the town is game to enter, not sure if Randy is dead or not. The film making is better than most of the bigger pictures could muster. The Warner western feartures an interesting cast - Joe Sawer in a non comedy role, punching it out with Scott, Charlie Bronson getting started, James Millican in his best part - are those Frank Ferguson, Cesare Gravina and Bob Steele in uncredited walk-ons? Pretension free work like the Scott-De Toth series made going to the movies a rewarding, addictive habit in the 1950's.

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