Deputy Marshal

Deputy Marshal Jon Hall rescues a shot man, carries him to town, and he is promptly killed. Hall's in town to track down two bad 'uns, but he decides to solve this murder too. It's one of those "who is trying to get all the ranch land before the railroad comes" plots, and it's a pretty good one, because this time we have only four real suspects.... and they all have reasons not to be going around, shooting evryone just as they're about to tell Hall what exactly is going on.

We also have two pretty women as sisters to two of the bad men: Frances Langford is sister to Dick Foran, who smirks a lot, and Julie Bishop is the sister of Russell Hayden, who doesn't. Clem Bevans is the doctor and the undertaker, and Mary Gordon shows up as a widow.

There's little here much above average. It's Miss Langford's last big screen appearance as an actress instead of a specialty, and DP Carl Berger seems a touch too fond of moving the camera; it's distracting. However, despite the typical minuscule Lippert budget, director William Berke has crafted a nice little B Western. Perhaps it's the chemistry between Hall and Langford, who were married.