Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day western cultists in his 1937 formula western Sandflow. Buck Jones plays the son of a crooked land dealer. Seeking redemption, Jones rides through the west to compensate every rancher who was cheated by his dad.
Acting
Buck Jones sells impossible sincerity like nobody's business.
Direction
Selander's lean, mean 58 minutes—no fat, all sand.
Director
Lesley Selander
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sandflow arrived at the tail end of Buck Jones's Republic Pictures run—he'd die five years later in the Cocoanut Grove fire, making these late westerns oddly poignant time capsules.
Selander directed over 100 westerns, and this one's title literally refers to desert sand AND the 'sand' of grit/courage—1937 screenwriters loved their double meanings.
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