Tangled Trails

Canadian Mountie Neal Hart tracks gold-mine swindler Edward Roseman to New York City and back to Canada. Along the way, he learns some interesting facts about the girl he's sweet o, Violet Palmer.

Thanks to Grapevine Video's of this B Northwestern, I have been able to revise an opinion I've held for more than 30 years. While this may lack the polish of an A western, it has nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to matters of old-fashioned entertainment, and a decent story told briskly. Some people may find it a tad fast -- when he discovers that the first woman he encounters in New York, and saves from being insulted (i.e. Pawed) by Roseman is actually Miss Palmer's long-lost sister, some may roll their rolls. However, the decent, if old-fashioned camerawork, the haphazard construction on the frontier, and the ubiquitous snow of the wintry north all bespeak of good, solid, commercial movie-making, without much in the way of pretension.