Rogue of the Range is a 1936 American Western film directed by S. Roy Luby and starring Johnny Mack Brown, Lois January and in her only film, Phyllis Hume, Miss California 1936 and first runner-up for Miss America, where she used the name Phyllis Dobson.[1][2] The film is also known as Spider and the Fly in the United Kingdom.[3]
Plot
Dan Doran robs a stagecoach before a gang of robbers does, then meets a woman driving a runaway wagon with her father dead in the back of it. Doran is caught and sent to prison for 20 years, but he breaks out with a fellow prisoner and joins a robbery gang in the same area where he came from.
Cast
- Johnny Mack Brown as Dan Doran
- Lois January as Stella Lamb
- Stephen Chase as Lige Branscomb
- Phyllis Hume as Tess
- George Ball as Jim Mitchell
- Jack Rockwell as Henchman Sloan
- Horace Murphy as Sheriff Tom
- Frank Ball as John (express agent)
- Oscar Gahan as Stage guard
Reception
In a very brief review, TV Guide found that "Brown poses as an outlaw but is really a lawman in this below-par programmer".[4]
Notes
- ^ p. 49 Brooker, John The Happiest Trails Lulu.com 9 February 2017
- ^ Pitts, Michael R. (September 17, 2015). Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1036-8.
- ^ p.384 Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies McFarland 30 July 2005
- ^ "Rogue of the Range". TVGuide.com. Retrieved September 19, 2024.
External links
- Rogue of the Range at IMDb
- Rogue of the Range is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
