Western Mail

"Western Mail" is a competent film, though it's also quite predictable since so many other films were very similar. Specifically, Tim McCoy made several such films in the 1930s....so it was predictable as a result.

When the story begins, a crook is being chased by the law out west. However, when they catch the guy, a stranger in town, Tom Allen (Tom Keene), vouches for the baddie...insisting they were together all the time and he couldn't have committed the crime! Yes, Tom is lying....but why? Through the course of the film you learn why...and Tom obviously has ulterior motives!

Keene was fine....the script was okay. It's not a bad B at all...except that it's so very familiar and predictable. If you are a fan of B-westerns, you'll see nothing new here.