Whistlin' Dan Barry rides into town, ignores every warning, and still gets the girl. Rude.
This George O'Brien western is based on a novel by Max Brand, previously filmed as the 1920 Tom Mix vehicle The Untamed. Cast as devil-may-car Whistlin' Dan Barry, our hero rides into a passel of trouble in a wide-open town. Warned to leave the premises or else, Whistlin' Dan refuses to do so, sticking around long enough to whomp villain Jim Silent (Mitchell Lewis) and romance heroine Kate Cumberland (Louise Huntington).
Stunts
George O'Brien doing his own horse stunts like it's 1929.
Production
Early sound western location work before the genre went studio-bound.
Director
Alfred L. Werker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was George O'Brien's first sound western after F.W. Murnau's Sunrise made him a star—quite the career pivot from German Expressionism to cowboy yarns.
Max Brand's Dan Barry stories were enormously popular pulp fare; this adaptation arrived right as Hollywood was figuring out how to make westerns talk without losing their kinetic energy.
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