a5c7b9f00b This film finds Ken Baxter and his two pals, Pancho and Panhandle, finding Professor Wahl, injured and wandering on the range. They take him to Blue Mesa Trading Post, where two archaeologists, Dr. Floto and Baron Starkoff, foreign government representatives, are staying. Both want to secure control of a supply of helium gas found in an ancient Indian cave. Wahl, working for the Federal Government, is murder at the Blue Mesa. The land strip on which the cave is located is claimed by Letty and Jim Morgan, brother and sister owners of the Lazy Y Ranch. Tin Cup Ranch owner Joe Larkin hires Ken to take possession of a cabin on the Morgan land in order to gain title. Ken, an undercover G-Man, discovers a secret passageway from the cabin that leads to the cave and discovers the helium, and also that Larkin is working with Starkoff. Unknown to the Morgan's, a secret mine on their ranch contains helium. Larkin knows of the helium and is after the ranch so he can sell the helium to foreign agent Strakoff. Ken finds the mine and the helium and sets out to help the Morgans. All right, already. Over and over again, like a broken record, it is penned that this is a low budget flick, that Ken Maynard was at the tail end of his career, etc., etc.<br/><br/>I enjoyed this movie, thoroughly and, although I had seen very few Ken Maynard flicks, it made me want to see more. The guy was part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, was in the Army in WW1, played several instruments, sang, made records, was a rodeo performer - so - there was nothing phony about his ridin' and fightin'.<br/><br/>He may not look much like a western movie hero, but he acted like one. His last few years were disgustingly sad - same old story - liquor was the villain he could not fight.<br/><br/>There are beaucoup well-done fight scenes in this movie. At one point, he missed and fell back adding to the realism.<br/><br/>Adding to the enjoyment of this movie were some short scenes of funny stuff. I especially enjoyed his initial proposal to Fay McKenzie. I know nothing of her but would like to see her again and again - cute and perky.<br/><br/>This movie has not one but two sidekicks and they play really well as partners, and as Maynard's fascinating friends. Ralph Peters and Julian Rivero.<br/><br/>The plot ain't bad, some of it all too familiar, but all it well played out. Especially fascinating was the tall, blonde Swede, Sven Hugo Borg.<br/><br/>One more thing. Trigger was billed as the smartest horse in the movies. Negative. He never picked up his boss's hat and brought it to him, and he never untied ropes that bound Roy. Smartest horse honors go to –- ta-da –- Tarzan.<br/><br/>If you can find this movie, grab it –- guaranteed enjoyment. Well, my choice of summary line quoted above was a toss-up, it could just as well have been the line uttered by Big Nick Harden in the Mountain View Saloon - "Why you weak kneed yellow bunch of little puddle frogs"! I think Big Nick's was a bit more colorful.<br/><br/>"Death Rides The Range" was an unusual story for a Thirties Western programmer, in that it borrowed a plot line from mystery flicks of the era. An underground vein of helium gas becomes the target of a couple of opposing foreign government agents, while the main villain Joe Larkin (Charles King) attempts to gain the rights to the property from the Morgan's at the Lazy Y. They even used a standard lights out gimmick in the early going during which an archeology professor is murdered for what he knows. By the end of the picture, it's revealed that Ken Baxter (Ken Maynard) is an agent of the FBI!!!, bringing the bad guys to justice just in time to get the girl (Fay McKenzie as Letty Morgan).<br/><br/>You know, I never saw this before in over three hundred Westerns or so, but here, villain Larkin lassos Baxter off his horse and hogties him until the hero's horse Tarzan makes the save by chewing through his ropes. That was actually Tarzan's second slick move, earlier he picked up Baxter's hat after another scuffle with a baddie.<br/><br/>As for Ken Maynard's character, he performs a real Tarzan-like move by doing that rope swing through the cabin window, but I had to wonder why he didn't just walk in instead. The move was much more dramatic than it needed to be considering the outcome. Nearing the end of his career as a movie cowboy, I found Maynard's description of himself in the story as somewhat insightful, stating that he came from nowhere and was heading in the same direction.
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