The Dude Ranger

Overview

In his first in a series of well-mounted Westerns and action melodramas for independent producer Sol Lesser, George O'Brien plays Ernest Selby, a young Easterner who cannot get rid of his inheritance -- an Arizona ranch -- soon enough. But when Sam Hepburn (Henry Hall), the wheelchair-bound operator of his ranch, mistakenly assumes that the youngster is seeking a job to get better acquainted with his haughty daughter Ann (Irene Hervey), Selby decides to stick around and look into the mysterious disappearance of 10,000 heads of cattle. With the help of cowhand Nebrasky Kemp (Syd Saylor), our hero quickly learns that nothing at the Red Rock Ranch is quite as it first appears: Old man Hepburn is only faking an injury, and the foreman, Hyslip (LeRoy Mason), knows more about the missing cattle than he cares to admit. Released by the Fox company, The Dude Ranger was filmed on location at Utah's Zion National Park.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/04/2021
UPC:	0089218839497
Original Release:	1934
Source:	Alpha Video
Language:	English
Sales rank:	56,234

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

George O'Brien	Ernest 'Dude' Selby
Irene Hervey	Ann Hepburn
Leroy Mason	Dale Hyslip,Hawk Selbert
Syd Daylor	'Nebraska' Kemp
Henry Hall	Sam Hepburn
Syd Saylor	Nebraska Kemp
Sid Jordan	Dunk
Alma Chester	Martha
Lloyd Ingraham	Beckett
Earl Dwire	Train Passenger (uncredited)
Smiley Burnette	Actor
Si Jenks	Drunk (uncredited)
Lafe McKee	Al - Bank Customer (uncredited)
Jack Kirk	Bank Customer (uncredited)
Hank Bell	Party Guest (uncredited)

Technical Credits

Edward F. Cline	Director
Sol Lesser	Producer
John S. Zanft	Producer

Editorial Reviews

"He's the meanest, stubbornnest, most conceited, high-hat dude tenderfoot I've ever seen," Irene Hervey says of George O'Brien in The Dude Ranger, "but how he can kiss!" And that's the kind of Western this Zane Grey adaptation is: more talk -- and some of it quite amusing -- than action. There is the Utah desert scenery of course but Hervey, who appeared "by arrangement with MGM", and most of the supporting cast seem more at home in drawing rooms. And that is where director Edward F. Cline keeps them most of the time, playing out a sort of prairie version of The Taming of the Shrew. With that kind of sophistication, there isn't much LeRoy Mason and his cutthroats can do, other than stay back and listen to the barbs fly. Sol Lesser used the Zane Grey connection and threw out the rest in the 1937 Smith Ballew opus Roll Along Cowboy, which is sometimes listed as a remake but isn't.

All Movie Guide - Hans J. Wollstein