A while ago, most (if not all) of the old Hopalong Cassidy B-westerns were completely restored. The prints not only look good, but are complete, as during the 1950s many of the famous cowboys' films were hacked to pieces to make them fit TV time slots.
Hopalong Cassidy and his Bar 20 sidekicks Jimmy Ellison and Gabby Hayes have their hands full in Three On The Trail. In one of my favorite John Wayne episodes Gabby had a line in there about how he believes in law and order, but 'depend on who's dishing it out'.
Hoppy and Johnny arrive in Mesquite to pick up supplies, while a stagecoach comes at the same time with a coach full of dance hall girls for the saloon owned by Pecos Kane, who also happens to organize a band of rustlers. Kane robs a stage with supplies for British rancher JP Ridley (who doesn't think all the robbing is abnormal for a western town) and kills the driver.
This is yet another western that revolves around a crooked 'town boss' and his eventual downfall. He is Pecos Kane, and as is frequently the case, he runs the town saloon, and puts on an act of being the most sophisticated, suave, gentleman in town.
Copyright 24 April 1936 by Paramount Productions, Inc. U.
I really like this one. Nice to praise a Hoppy film for a change.
Thing about these old westerns is that they kinda grow on you after a while (no... NOT "like a fungus" !
