Don't expect Frenchie or a cat fight with the upstanding woman in town or a shy, Retiring version of the character that James Stewart and various other actors played later on. This is the story of that Destrys father. It's silence star Tom Mix as Pop Destry, and I guess we're supposed to assume that his girlfriend Claudia Dell, will eventually be that Destry's mother. Like the three films that I've seen based upon that legend (one called "Frenchie" with Shelley Winters didn't include Destry and was seen from her point of view as she aidsvin corruption clean up), this was made at Universal studios, and is a similar story of mix as sheriff destery trying to clean up the corruption in the town and ending up in jail for a crime he did not commit. In a sense, it is closer to "High Noon" because Destry's return to town is intended to put the real criminals behind bars.
This is not an A film, rather creaky and cheap looking but giving Mix enough stunts to pull on his beloved horse Tony who, upon seeing Mix on the caboose of the train coming back to town, furiously rides towards him. At only 61 minutes, this is very easy to get through, although the prince I watched clocked in at 52 minutes. Zasu Pitts only has a cameo, amusing in her brief scene as a temperance leader who gives her typical "oh dear" response when she finds out that the man she's talking to is a bartender. It's satisfactory for the type of film that it is, but a lot of sequences, there is barely any sound other than Tony's hooves clomping through the prairie. This is probably one of the only times that a film title would be utilized for a movie that actually seemed to be a follow-up rather than a remake of the previous film.
This is not an A film, rather creaky and cheap looking but giving Mix enough stunts to pull on his beloved horse Tony who, upon seeing Mix on the caboose of the train coming back to town, furiously rides towards him. At only 61 minutes, this is very easy to get through, although the prince I watched clocked in at 52 minutes. Zasu Pitts only has a cameo, amusing in her brief scene as a temperance leader who gives her typical "oh dear" response when she finds out that the man she's talking to is a bartender. It's satisfactory for the type of film that it is, but a lot of sequences, there is barely any sound other than Tony's hooves clomping through the prairie. This is probably one of the only times that a film title would be utilized for a movie that actually seemed to be a follow-up rather than a remake of the previous film.