The Laramie Kid

Tom Tyler tells girl friend Alberta Vaughn that he put together two thousand dollars busting bronchos..... and then lost it all gambling. He vows to give up gambling, throws away his dice, and goes looking for money, but there are no rodeos around. Meanwhile, her father, Murdock MacQuarrie, needs a thousand so banker Al Ferguson won't foreclose. When the bank is robbed and Tom is misidentified as one of the robbers, he allows MacQuarrie to capture him for the $1000 reward. He's sentenced to five years on the chain gang, and Miss Vaughn goes looking for evidence of who really did the robbery.

It could have been a nice, quirky, comic western, given Miss Vaughn's work as a Sennett Bathing Beauty, but that's passed over so that Tom can do a daring leap from a wagon over a river, surrounded by enough extraneous footage to destroy any excitement. This is a 1935 B western, and the pace of editing is glacial, although cameraman Pliny Goodfellow -- great name! -- tries to speed it up with a few pan shots. But neither director Harry Webb nor editor Fred Bain are having any of it.

By the way, there's nothing about Laramie in it. Nor any reference to anyone called 'The Laramie Kid'.