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Bupp Filmology
Week Twenty

"Roarin' Guns" 1936

MOVIE NAME: ROARIN' GUNS
STUDIO: EXCELSIOR PICTURES Dist. by PURITAN PICTURES
PRODUCER: SIG NEUFELD and LESLIE SIMMONDS
DIRECTOR: SAM NEWFIELD
DATE: 1936
TYPE: WESTERN

CAST:
TIM McCOY as Tim Corwin, ROSALINDA as May Carter, WHEELER OAKMAN as Walton, REX LEASE as Jerry , JOHN ELLIOTT as Bob Morgan,KARL HACKET as Evans, DICK ALEXANDER as Bull Langdon, TOMMY BUPP as Buddy, JACK ROCKWELL as Barry ,ED CASSIDY as Sheriff, LEW MEEHAN, as Sanderson
STORY: Powerful cattle Barons try to run independent ranchers off their land by burning their homes and posting notices that intimidate them into selling. A cattleman named Evans , who is backed by Walton, a cattle baron, is wants to by the Morgan Ranch. Bob Morgan is only the caretaker for his niece, May Carter. Who is arriving soon. The local ranchers form a Cattleman's Association, and hire Tim Corwin, a hired killer from a Wyoming cattleman association. When Tim arrives, he teaches Bob's son Buddy how to shoot. Walton appoints Jerry, one of his gang to kill Tim, and Tim is forced to hide out in a mountain cabin. Walton sends Bob a fake telegram saying May will be delayed. Tim discovers Walton's scheme to capture May, and escorts her to the safety of his cabin. Walton finds the cabin and in a scuffle, Bob is killed. Walton's henchman convinces May he was with Bob looking for her, and Walton accuses Tim of murdering Bob and kidnapping May. Although the sheriff's posse tries to arrest him, Tim makes it back to the Morgan Ranch, where Buddy is standing guard. Walton's gang arrives in the night, but Tim escapes after a warning shot by Buddy. The next day, Evans pretending to be a friend of Bob, asks May to sell, but discovers that Bob signed over his portion of the ranch to Tim. Now May needs Tim's signature to sell. Tim sends Buddy to Evans for safekeeping, unaware that he is working for Walton. Evans then tells Tim that May, wants him to act on her behalf regarding the ranch. Later, when Walton and Evans meet, Buddy overhears their plans. Bob's real killer goes to the ranch to kill Tim, but Tim is waiting for him. Tim takes him to the sheriff, who clears Tim and arrests Evans and Walton. Tim then proposes to May.

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