Product Description

Overlooked western comedy stars Eddie Albert as an East Coast-based gunsmith who decides to move to a pistol-packing Arizona town with hopes of making a fortune there. During his journey--which is packed with plenty of mirthful misadventures--he falls for gold-seeking beauty Gale Storm. Together, the pair teams up to make their dreams come true and fight some varmints. With James Gleason, Gilbert Roland. 86 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #151314 in DVD
• Formats: Black & White, NTSC, Full Screen
• Running time: 86 minutes

Customer Reviews

A light and loving look at the West
Especially to those who know him primarily from "Green Acres," Eddie Albert probably doesn't seem an especially heroic figure. But in this BW outing, made when he was 42 (though he looks younger) and only 10 years from his film debut, he shows that he can do it, if not always in deadly serious style. He plays Daniel Bone, a young gunsmith who, in 1876, decides that Brooklyn is no longer the place for a man in his trade and sets out for the mining camp of Arsenic City, Utah Territory. On the train from Kansas City he meets Liza Crockett (Storm), who is on her way to the same destination in hopes of finding the golden lode discovered by her father before he was murdered. What neither of them knows is that somebody else wants to find it too, and has sent the Pecos Kid (Roland) to do the job. Daniel saves Liza's map (without knowing just what Pecos was after), and in the process makes an enemy. He also manages, through a series of misunderstandings, to convince Liza that he too is out for the map--and perhaps her virtue as well! Later he saves the life of Pecos's rival, Texas Jack Barton (MacLane), and when he and Liza are captured by Paiutes, manages to use the information gleaned from his extensive reading to gain their respect and friendship. Gradually we learn the extent of the plot, which Daniel continues to foil, and in the end, "with a little help from his friends," all comes out right: the villains are suitably dealt with, Liza's mine is saved, and (as narrator-Daniel tells his grandchildren), "your Grandma...won your Grandpa." Though not notable for fast action and (as we might expect from its date) somewhat given to Political Incorrectness, this little-known comedy-Western gem offers good pace and several memorable characters, including Texas Jack (who comes to quite like Daniel) and prospector Sam Briggs (Gleason). To me, its great strength is that Albert and his cohorts play it straight, even though the audience sees that it's a comedy. Anyone who enjoys more modern efforts like Support Your Local Sheriff will probably like this movie.

Pardners, they just don't shoot em like this anymore
Eddie Albert stars in an early Green Acres-type comedy as New York gunsmith Daniel Bone who heads west to the wicked mining town of Arsenic to cash in on the market for gun repairs. On the way there he convinces the hostile Indians he is a great smoke god and the outlaws that he can outshoot them. Gale Storm enters the picture in search of her late father's gold mine and everyone in Arsenic wants her map. Albert is thwarted in all his romantic advances until he memorizes the map and rescues her to find the gold. Directed with flair by Kurt Neumann (The Fly)