Blazing Guns

Reb Russell is knocked out, his wonder horse Rebel stolen, and he's arrested for being "Slug Raton", a bandit who shot a stage driver. He spends the rest of the movie clearing things up.

It's long on action and short on dialogue, particularly from Wilson. It's one of Willis Kent's super-cheap westerns produced for states right distribution, and wastes nothing.... and has little to offer, because while Russell is a decent physical actor, his line readings are awful. Fortunately, he spends most of the time unconscious or with his mouth gagged.

Lafayette H. "Reb" Russell was bon in 1906. He was a running back in college and played 10 games for the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles in 1933. Hollywood beckoned, but a couple of uncredited appearances as a football player ended that association. Willis Kent tried to make him a cowboy star, but failed. Russell toured for several seasons on the rodeo circuit, then became a rancher. He died in 1978.