During the gold rush days a wagon train is attacked by a gang of renegades. John Knox is killed and one of his young sons, Asa Knox, is kidnapped by the renegade leader. The other son, Clint, and his mother Martha escape and reach St. Joseph, Missouri. Clint grows up and becomes a crack rider for the Pony Express. The kidnapped brother, now known as Ace Carter, has been raised by the outlaws with a contempt for the law. He is an unsuccessful rival of Clint's for the Pony Express job, which fosters enmity between them. Ace holds up a stagecoach on which Martha Knox and Clint's sweetheart, Mary West, are passengers. Clint takes the trail and runs him down. Clint later learns Ace's true identity and saves him from a lynch mob. Because of the circumstances, Ace's captors relent, and the two brothers and their mother are reunited.
Two brothers are separated when young. One becomes the pony express rider Clint Knox and the other the outlaw Ace Carter. Their next meeting finds Ace way-laying Clint as he delivers the mail.
Young Asa Knox is taken away from his surviving family by an outlaw after his father is killed. Mrs. Knox heads back to St. Joseph, Missouri with her other son Clint. The Knox family&#39;s original destination was California during the glory days of the Gold Rush, so for the math to work, the Knox boys would have just been hitting their twenties when we rejoin them in St. Joe of 1860. Instead, Hoot Gibson, portraying Clint, looks every bit of forty four, his real age at the time of the film. Ace Carter (Rex Lease), who grew up an outlaw himself, looks at least ten to fifteen years younger. So much for that casting decision.<br/><br/>Back in 1936, I imagine every Western made found itself exploring what was probably a new theme at the time. I haven&#39;t run across many &#39;B&#39; Westerns where the Pony Express plays a role, so seeing how it was used here looked fairly original. The man in charge of the service is named Christman (Earl Dwire), and he explains that the Express will utilize one hundred ninety relay stations, and employ eighty men and five hundred horses for trips between St. Joe and Sacramento. His goal is to make the trip in ten days, a rather impressive feat it seems, even without complications.<br/><br/>Clint is initially turned down by Christman for a job as a Pony Express rider, citing his need to be around to help his mother and fiancée. You&#39;ll have to pay attention to Mom Knox&#39;s speech encouraging her son&#39;s employment as if the future of the country depended on it. It&#39;s almost as eloquent as the Gettysburg Address, which by the way wouldn&#39;t exist for another four or five years.<br/><br/>The film plods along at times, and does manage to use some of the standard clichés of the genre, most notably when Ace uses the old rope across the trail trick to knock Clint off his horse. Modern day viewers who haven&#39;t grown up with these oaters will probably be shocked to learn that holding up a stagecoach could get you death by hanging, even if the guy you shot was only wounded. Fortunately, Ace&#39;s holdup victims all had their backs to him, and Mom isn&#39;t talking. Hoot Gibson&#39;s character explains how fate might have dealt a different hand if back when they were kids it was Clint who was kidnapped instead of Ace. The judge was OK with that, so no necktie party.<br/><br/>The film was directed by Harry Fraser, who during the mid 1930&#39;s also did the same for a couple of John Wayne&#39;s Lone Star Westerns - &quot;Neath The Arizona Skies&quot; and &quot;Randy Rides Alone&quot;, both from 1934. Catch those films for some interesting techniques, notably flash forward sequences used to pace riders on horseback along to their destination; it wasn&#39;t used in &#39;Cavalcade&#39;. At least the hero getting the girl remains a staple here, but then again there was never any doubt. Hoot Gibson got to kiss his girl way back in the middle of the story, how novel was that!
The film begins with a scene with a dentist that really made no sense and didn&#39;t seem at all necessary. Soon after, you see the wagon of settlers continue on their trip west to California during the time of the Gold Rush. The group is attacked by bandits and the two young brothers are separated. Years pass and one is an upstanding citizen who gets a job with the Pony Express (Hoot Gibson) and the other tries to get a job but cannot provide references and is refused. This is not surprising, as the guy (Rex Lease) dresses in black and EVERYONE knows that means he&#39;s bad. He also is the long-lost brother from the beginning of the picture. Eventually, this black-clad guy shows that he is indeed a baddie and he you see him holding up stage coaches. So, it&#39;s up to our hero to track him down and bring him to justice. But, when the baddie is caught, Hoot recognizes him as his long-lost brother. This leads to a LOT of sentimentality and schmaltziness–climaxing in his meeting up with his mother and her having to testify against him in court. What follows next is one of the sillier and less believable scenes in western history as the judge hears their story of losing the boy only to rediscover him–and lets the guy go–even though he admitted to robberies and shooting a guy! Now that&#39;s realistic (just not on this planet).<br/><br/>All in all, I liked the first part of the film (even though I have seen a plot like this before) but the second part was just silly. Overall, it&#39;s watchable but not much more. By the way, this is the first Hoot Gibson film I&#39;ve watched and I&#39;d love to see some of his early films (which were silents), as this later version of Hoot was pretty dull. Perhaps he was better back in the old days.<br/><br/>FYI–The famed Pony Express that is talked about in this film and quite a few others actually only operated for a little over a year before being replaced by telegraph lines.


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