Racketeers of the Range

1939

Drama / Western

2
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 152 152

Plot summary

A large packing company is trying to obtain a monopoly by taking over the last small independent meat packer. Barney O'Dell, owner of the largest ranch, is trying to stop them. When the owner agrees to sell, Barney get a delay by forcing the small company to declare bankruptcy and having himself made receiver. Now the large company has to deal with Larry and when he refuses they resort to rustling.

Director

D. Ross Lederman Photo
D. Ross Lederman

Top cast

Chill Wills Photo
Chill Wills as Whopper Hatch
Cactus Mack Photo
Cactus Mack as Flash Gilbert
Frankie Marvin Photo
Frankie Marvin as Skeeter Potts
Marjorie Reynolds Photo
Marjorie Reynolds as Helen Lewis
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510.58 MB
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English 2.0
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29.97 fps
12 hr 55 min
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947.12 MB
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English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
29.97 fps
12 hr 55 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jarrodmcdonald-1

Nicely made B western

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 5 / 10

too much business talk

Rancher Barney O'Dell (George O'Brien) is on a train to a meat packing company after not getting paid. The plant has been taken over by Helen Lewis (Marjorie Reynolds) after the death of her father. Her lawyer Roger Whitlock has been scheming to sell her out to the largest packing company which intends to establish a monopoly.This has a bit of cowboy singing and a bit of broad comedy and a bit of ranching western. There is a bit too much business talk. I'd rather do more cowboying. I don't really understand the debt and all that stuff. My eyes glaze over and my brain stops working. I don't get it and I don't care. All the money talk grinds down the pacing and it takes too much to keep me interested.
Reviewed by coltras35 7 / 10

Racketeers of the Range

A large packing company is trying to obtain a monopoly by taking over the last small independent meat packer. Barney O'Dell, owner of the largest ranch, is trying to stop them. When the owner agrees to sell, Barney get a delay by forcing the small company to declare bankruptcy and having himself made receiver. Now the large company has to deal with Larry and when he refuses they resort to rustling.Racketeers of the range is a light and entertaining b-western that stars the ever smiling George O' Brien who clashes with Marjorie Reynolds, a sharp-tongued spitfire, and has a conflict with Bruce Cabot, who plays a slippery villain. It's not strictly a western as it has cars - it's set in the 30's. There's some decent action that propels things along, and it ends with a satisfying climax on a calaboose. It's well-staged. There's a poignant look of a western trail street with horses and a car, modernity taking over the west. Change of times. Chills Wills provides the humour - there's an amusing scene where he tells a girl about his brave exploits but the flashbacks says the opposite. Quite an imaginatively funny sequence.
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