Death Rides The Range In Hindi Movie Download

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This film finds Ken Baxter and his two pals, Pancho and Panhandle, finding Professor Wahl, injured and wandering on the range. They take him to Blue Mesa Trading Post, where two archaeologists, Dr. Floto and Baron Starkoff, foreign government representatives, are staying. Both want to secure control of a supply of helium gas found in an ancient Indian cave. Wahl, working for the Federal Government, is murder at the Blue Mesa. The land strip on which the cave is located is claimed by Letty and Jim Morgan, brother and sister owners of the Lazy Y Ranch. Tin Cup Ranch owner Joe Larkin hires Ken to take possession of a cabin on the Morgan land in order to gain title. Ken, an undercover G-Man, discovers a secret passageway from the cabin that leads to the cave and discovers the helium, and also that Larkin is working with Starkoff.
Unknown to the Morgan's, a secret mine on their ranch contains helium. Larkin knows of the helium and is after the ranch so he can sell the helium to foreign agent Strakoff. Ken finds the mine and the helium and sets out to help the Morgans.
When Ken Maynard signed with independent producer Maurice Henry Hoffman in 1937, he was forced to accept a standard shooting budget of only $30,000. This included a personal payment to him of only $2,500 per picture. In all, a considerable comedown from the $125,000 budgets, and the $10,000 he was earning per week at Universal only three years earlier. Yet worse events were soon to come. Hoffman fell ill and sold his contract to Max and Arthur Alexander. The Alexander brothers cut Maynard's budget to only $15,000. Total shooting time was reduced to five or six days, which is certainly evident in this entry. Alas, Ken Maynard doesn't put up much of a struggle to hold this Poverty Row potboiler together. True, he's forced to contend with a none too bright screenplay and obviously hasty direction. Unfortunately for his career, however, he receives more than adequate support from some of his players. John Elliott, who enjoys by far the best written part, easily steals the movie from Ken with his crusty characterization of a cantankerous storekeeper. Then there's Charlie King, that prince of heavies, making the most of a sizable role, and our little heroine Fay McKenzie more than holds her own as well. Not to be outdone, Tarzan also steals the limelight in a delightful bit in which he picks up Ken's hat, while minor player Kenneth Rhodes is handed a song yet. And even Sven Hugo Borg as the chief villain makes a game try, assisted by director Newfield indulging him with a few close-ups. Fortunately for Ken, his two sidekicks, the innocuous Ralph Peters and the hammy Julian Rivero, are both write-offs. As for the cheesy plot, frankly we couldn't care less if the Nazis made off with all the helium in the universe. If they want to blow themselves up, why not? And as for who killed Professor Wahl, good old Sam Newfield reveals the murderer's identity right from the start. At least the movie is brief. but it's sad to see a great star like Ken Maynard not only lending his presence to such a minor production, but putting up such a poor fight in allowing himself to be outclassed by actors who are obviously taking their roles more seriously. Most of the time, Ken is content to merely rattle off his lines.
Well, my choice of summary line quoted above was a toss-up, it could just as well have been the line uttered by Big Nick Harden in the Mountain View Saloon - "Why you weak kneed yellow bunch of little puddle frogs"! I think Big Nick's was a bit more colorful. "Death Rides The Range" was an unusual story for a Thirties Western programmer, in that it borrowed a plot line from mystery flicks of the era. An underground vein of helium gas becomes the target of a couple of opposing foreign government agents, while the main villain Joe Larkin (Charles King) attempts to gain the rights to the property from the Morgan's at the Lazy Y. They even used a standard lights out gimmick in the early going during which an archeology professor is murdered for what he knows. By the end of the picture, it's revealed that Ken Baxter (Ken Maynard) is an agent of the FBI!!!, bringing the bad guys to justice just in time to get the girl (Fay McKenzie as Letty Morgan). You know, I never saw this before in over three hundred Westerns or so, but here, villain Larkin lassos Baxter off his horse and hogties him until the hero's horse Tarzan makes the save by chewing through his ropes. That was actually Tarzan's second slick move, earlier he picked up Baxter's hat after another scuffle with a baddie. As for Ken Maynard's character, he performs a real Tarzan-like move by doing that rope swing through the cabin window, but I had to wonder why he didn't just walk in instead. The move was much more dramatic than it needed to be considering the outcome. Nearing the end of his career as a movie cowboy, I found Maynard's description of himself in the story as somewhat insightful, stating that he came from nowhere and was heading in the same direction.

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Death Rides The Range In Hindi Movie Download

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