Border Feud

Just watched this on cable for the first time in about 40 years. As a really little kid I was a big fan of Lash LaRue. This was probably because his all black outfit and whip tricks were sooo Cool. He also looks and even sounds like (minus lisp) another favorite of mine Humphrey Bogart. This is your standard PRC "B" Oater of the era. Goes through all of the cliches: bad guy tricks friends into a feud for his own benefit, the feuding families have a member on either side who are secretly in love with each other, the real identity of the "evil overlord" is not revealed to the audience till near the end, the bad guy spouts lines like "now this is my plan"...and the film jump cuts to another location,guns fire forever without reloading, and on and on. The acting is up to (down to??) the usual PRC standards. Fuzzy StJohn is funny, but then he's been at this stuff since the Keystone Cops days. Lash is especially wooden in this one. Since he is given no opportunity to use his whip, there just isn't much use in having him in the movie. The plot is fairly dense for the short running time. Oddly it was written by a woman, which must have been fairly unusual for a Western at that time. All in all not a great film and not one of Lash's best outings. Still, if it's on cable and you have an hour to waste, give it a watch.