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| John Wayne | ... | ||
| Sheila Terry | ... | ||
| Shirley Jean Rickert | ... |
Nina
(as Shirley Jane Rickert)
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| Jack Rockwell | ... | ||
| Yakima Canutt | ... |
Sam Black
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Harry L. Fraser | ... |
Henchman in the Brush
(as Weston Edwards)
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| Jay Wilsey | ... |
Jim Moore
(as Buffalo Bill Jr.)
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Philip Kieffer | ... |
Jameson Hodges
(as Phil Keefer)
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Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil lease. Outlaw Sam Black is after the girl and her father as well. Besides dealing with the Black gang, Morrell has to find another robber, Jim Moore, who switches clothes with him after he finds Chris unconscious from a fight with Sam Black. Along the way, he meets a lady who's the sister of Jim Moore, another bad hombre who's in cahoots with Sam Black, and an old friend who takes in Nina and helps Chris locate Nina's father and fight off the various desperadoes. Written by Dale Roloff<[email protected]>
Neath The Arizona Skies finds John Wayne as the guardian of little Shirley Jean Rickert who is a half Indian little tyke who stands to inherit some really big bucks because property her Mother left before she died has oil on it. Dad's been out of the picture for some time and most believe he's dead. The Duke thinks otherwise and sets off to find him.
He's got Yakima Canutt and a gang he's leading for competition who would like nothing better than to snatch the girl, kill the father if he's alive and get guardianship of the fortune.
Remember this is 1934 and kidnapping stories were very commonplace in films because of the Lindbergh kidnapping a few years earlier.
I wish this film had been done by a major studio with production values of same. There is a good nugget of a plot idea here and it could have been developed a lot better than it was.
Still it's not bad for a Lone Star production for John Wayne and I think more than Duke devotees might like it.