A cavalry officer helps save a family's ranch from land grabbers.A cavalry officer helps save a family's ranch from land grabbers.A cavalry officer helps save a family's ranch from land grabbers.
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Nina Quartero
- Anita Garcia
- (as Nena Quartero)
Slim Whitaker
- Jake Morgan
- (as Charles Whitaker)
Sam Appel
- Garcia - Bartender
- (uncredited)
Hank Bell
- Morgan Rider
- (uncredited)
Buck Bucko
- Morgan Rider
- (uncredited)
Roy Bucko
- Morgan Rider
- (uncredited)
Joe Dominguez
- Gonzales Henchman
- (uncredited)
Frank Ellis
- Frank - One of Morgan's Men
- (uncredited)
Jack Evans
- Orderly
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaLeon Schlesinger, who in addition to creating and overseeing the Warner Bros. animation unit, also produced films for the studio's B-western unit. He signed a broad-shouldered young actor named John Wayne partly out of his physical resemblance to Warners' silent-era cowboy star Ken Maynard in order to more easily match the stunts and footage taken from the earlier Maynard silents that were to be inserted into a series of remakes of those films, of which this is one.
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Captain John Holmes: You know, Felipe, there's something suspicious about all this.
Felipe Guadalupe Constacio Delgado Santa Cruz de la Verranca: Senor, we shall consult the cards. They never fail. Ah, they never fail.
Captain John Holmes: Aw, stick those cards in your...
Felipe Guadalupe Constacio Delgado Santa Cruz de la Verranca: SEÑOR!
Captain John Holmes: ...in your pocket. Come on.
- Crazy creditsOpening cards:
California -- 1848
The rancho castanares-- near the pueblo Santa Barbara. A vast domain, reaching from the mountains to the sea...
- ConnectionsFeatures The Canyon of Adventure (1928)
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John Wayne in one of his early forgettable B-westerns
The only way I can watch any one of the early B-westerns is by deciding in advance to treat it as high camp, although occasionally a good one pops up. This film is not one of those, but I still had a few chuckles at the goings on, looking for outrageous items. John Wayne is an army captain sent from a fort in Monterey to convince Spanish land owner Lafe McKee to register his claim, else it will become public domain. Land grabbers Francis Ford and his son Donald Reed try to keep McKee from doing so in order to get the land for themselves. The only comic relief in the film came from Luis Alberni, who reads palms, continuously introduces himself as "Felipe Guadelupe Constanche Delgado Santa Cruz" in a flourish, and dresses in drag. Almost everyone else, including Wayne, is so serious it was somewhat funny. I had fun with the good bad guy (Slim Whitaker), the all-too-easy escapes, the stilted dialog, the obligatory love-interest (with Ruth Hall), the peculiar sword fighting, and best of all, Wayne's mind-reading horse, Duke. When Wayne was captured, he tells Alberni (who is outside the locked room where there are no guards) to send Duke to get Whitaker's men. All Alberni does is pat the horse on his rear end and say "go on, Duke."
This was set right after California entered the Union when the Spanish land owners distrusted the "gringos," and filmmakers used the theme of land grabbing quite often.
This was set right after California entered the Union when the Spanish land owners distrusted the "gringos," and filmmakers used the theme of land grabbing quite often.
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- Dec 31, 1998
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- Runtime57 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Man from Monterey (1933) officially released in Canada in English?
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