Rawhide Mail (1934) ⭐ 4.8 | Western
Reed breaks up the first attempted gold robbery. When the outlaws next attempt is successful, Reed is jailed as the suspect. Escaping from jail, he knows who to look for.Reed breaks up the first attempted gold robbery. When the outlaws next attempt is successful, Reed is jailed as the suspect. Escaping from jail, he knows who to look for.Reed breaks up the first attempted gold robbery. When the outlaws next attempt is successful, Reed is jailed as the suspect. Escaping from jail, he knows who to look for.
Stagecoach robbers Jack Perrin, Chris-Pin Martin, and Nelson McDonald take a shine to pretty Lililian Gilmore. When crooked saloon owner Richard Cramer cheats her out of her patrimony, the boys stick around. Errin is framed for robbery and murder.
It's one of the dire B westerns that wound up Perrin's starring career. Martin and McDonald show some comic chops, but director Bernard Ray won't let them show any zip in their performances. Instead, the usual ten minutes are spent showing men riding across the landscape in long focus.. Cineamtographer J. Henry Kruse tries some graceful pan shots to maintain composition, but the pacing is too slow and deliberate for any excitement or fun.
Perrin was one of the cowboy stars in the 1930s who was fired from his Universal contract with the coming of sound. He descended into the depths of Poverty Row westerns. By 1938 he had his last credited performance. Nonetheless, he kept appearing in movies big and small without credits, until 1962, racking up a total of almost 500 screen appearances. He died in 1967 at the age of 71.
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By what name was Rawhide Mail (1934) officially released in Canada in English?