Storyline

During the gold rush days a wagon train is attacked by a gang of renegades. John Knox is killed and one of his young sons, Asa Knox, is kidnapped by the renegade leader. The other son, Clint, and his mother Martha escape and reach St. Joseph, Missouri. Clint grows up and becomes a crack rider for the Pony Express. The kidnapped brother, now known as Ace Carter, has been raised by the outlaws with a contempt for the law. He is an unsuccessful rival of Clint's for the Pony Express job, which fosters enmity between them. Ace holds up a stagecoach on which Martha Knox and Clint's sweetheart, Mary West, are passengers. Clint takes the trail and runs him down. Clint later learns Ace's true identity and saves him from a lynch mob. Because of the circumstances, Ace's captors relent, and the two brothers and their mother are reunited.—Les Adams

Plot Keywords

independent film, tension, renegade, lynch mob, wagon train, widow, death of husband, violence, retribution, stress, family reunion, death of father, brother versus brother, grindhouse film, stock footage, remade more than once, remake, vindication, reprisal, reformation

Short Review

Interesting Hoot Gibson vehicle here as he volunteers for the new Pony Express being set up. But who is the mysterious man in black wanting to hold him up? This movie definitely takes it's time getting going, but it has some interesting tricks up it's sleeve, especially at the ending, to make this quite passable. Hoot's defininitely one of my fave Western guys.

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