Fool's Gold

In Fool's Gold Hopalong Cassidy gets a request from a friend who's an army colonel to fetch the colonel's son Steve Barclay away from an outlaw band he's planning to join before he gets in real trouble. Barclay is a lieutenant in the army and he's going to be part of an intricate scheme in a gold robbery.

Sad to say Fool's Gold has to go down as one of the lesser features in the long Hopalong Cassidy film series. In fact the series would shortly come to an end only to regain life on television in the early Fifties.

The screenplay was strangely actionless and had they concentrated on the caper aspects of the plot it might have been better. It was in fact an interesting idea for a robbery and could have worked better with better writers.

Even Andy Clyde's oafishness and yarn spinning was not as entertaining as normal Clyde's California character comes off as more stupid than amusing here.

For devoted Hoppy fans only.