Produced as a pilot for a TV series. At least one of the lead actors found it difficult to draw his pistol because of advanced arthritis.
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The film served as a star vehicle for Tom Keene. Keene had become known as a star of B movie Westerns in the 1930s and 1940s, but was experiencing a downturn in his career in the 1950s.
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Director Ed Wood had a small acting role as a Pony Express rider.
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The film "Crossroad Avenger" lasts 25 minutes. The series failed to find a buyer. It was eventually combined with another Western starring Keene into a longer film called The Adventures of the Tucson Kid and was syndicated to television c. 1954.
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The concept of a protagonist as a traveling insurance investigator would allow the proposed series to adopt an anthology format, with a different location and storyline in each episode.
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