A fed in spurs chases city slickers into the dust—Sam Newfield's 54-minute fever dream.
This low-budget western stars Tim McCoy as federal agent Tim Hammond, who follows a gang of big-city gangsters to the Wide Open Spaces. Don't be fooled by the opening credits: the "Peter Stewart" listed as director Gun Code was actually PRC workhorse Sam Newfield.
Acting
Tim McCoy's granite-jawed fed-in-cowboy-drag commitment.
Direction
Newfield/Stewart's breakneck Poverty Row efficiency—54 minutes, no fat.
Director
Sam Newfield
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sam Newfield directed over 250 films, often using pseudonyms like 'Peter Stewart' so PRC could pretend they had multiple directors.
This 1940 release captures the weird moment when Hollywood kept cramming gangsters into westerns—like two fading trends eloping.
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