A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!
Acting
Don 'Red' Barry takes punches like he's billing by the bruise
Production
Meat locker sets that somehow smell like sawdust
Director
William Beaudine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
William Beaudine directed over 350 films and was nicknamed 'One Shot' for his refusal to do second takes—explains the energy here.
This was part of a post-war wave of 'modern westerns' that moved cowboys into cities and crime into supply chains—cattle rustling as organized labor racketeering.
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