Frontier Town

For a film which is set around the rodeo it strangely has no footage, stock or otherwise,of an actual rodeo,only of a rodeo audience.Apart from this it is competently made with the cowardly antics of sidekicks Murphy and Pollard amusing,the musical numbers are authentic and the dialog delivered by Ritter during the crooked poker game could have come from John Wayne or James Stewart in any A western.Look out for a bearded Hank Worden in a non-speaking bit part as one of Karl Hackett's gang.Hank would go on to become one of the western's best loved character actors ,probably second only to Walter Brennan,and worked into the 1990's with his last western being 'Once Upon a Texas Train' in 1988,