More Lash LaRue films today. It's the other half of the 12 film set of Lash LaRue film with Lash playing Marshal Lash LaRue. He made 11 films as the same character and they tossed in one of his other films with sidekick Fuzzy Q Jones, played by Al St John.
The Daltons' Women 1950 - Lash and Fuzzy are on the trail of the Dalton brothers. Pamela Blake plays an undercover Pinkerton agent. Pamela has a great fight with one of the other women in the saloon. They break stuff and nearly loose their dresses. One of the best fights in a Western I've seen in a while. There's plenty of shooting and riding, and singing too. Entertaining.
King Of The Bullwhip 1950 - Lash and Fuzzy come to town to help a banker catch El Azote, a local bandit who uses a whip like Lash.
The Thundering Trail 1951 - Lots of the usual, some of which I had seen before. Not the film, it was new to me. Some scenes from other Lash movies have been lifted and added to new footage to bring the film to feature length. It's still a fairly good film. This is the start of the practice of using stock footage from other Lash films to reduce costs.
The Vanishing Outpost 1951 - The Wikipedia says that more than half the film is scenes cut from Son Of Billy The Kid, Son Of A Badman, Outlaw County and Mark Of The Lash. It's still watchable, after all it was watchable before.
The Black Lash 1952 - A guy Lash sent to jail in a previous film gets out and comes gunning for Lash. More dipping into the older films, this time footage from Frontier Revenge. I noticed the clips from past films because I've seen the films in two batches a week apart. When they were released, no one would have a chance to see these films close enough together to notice the reused footage. Not that it didn't happen in other cases.
The Frontier Phantom 1952 - Lash and Fuzzy appear in the new material and a good bit of footage from Outlaw Country is used for a flashback. This is the last film for Al St John, he would go one for another 11 years and die waiting to go on stage at a Wild West show.
All in all, not a bad set of films. I was glad to have picked up the set.
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