The New Frontier [Blu-ray]

Director: Carl Pierson Carl Pierson

Overview

John Wayne goes up against a nasty vice lord in this, his second Western under the new Republic Pictures banner. Hired against his father's wishes to lead a wagon train, John Dawson (Wayne) at first battles then befriends the outlaw Kit (Al Bridge) and his gang, whom he supplies with food. The friendship comes in handy back in Frontier, OK, where Ace Holmes (Warner P. Richmond) has been terrorizing the citizenry in general and John's father, Milt (Sam Flint), in particular. When the latter is killed, John takes on the responsibility of sheriff, deputizes Kit and his men, and together they clean up the town. Filmed at Lone Pine, CA, and using plenty of stock footage from Ken Maynard's silent era The Red Raiders (1927), The New Frontier was directed by editor Carl Pierson.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/22/2013
UPC:	0887090052009
Original Release:	1935
Rating:	NR
Source:	Olive
Presentation:	[B&W]
Language:	English
Time:	0:55:00
Sales rank:	18,158

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

John Wayne	John Dawson
Muriel Evans	Hanna Lewis
Murdock MacQuarrie	Tom Lewis
Alan Bridge	Kit,Kit
Allan Cavan	Minister
Mary MacLaren	Mrs. Shaw
Warner Richmond	Ace Holmes,Ace Holmes
Sam Flint	Milt Dawson
Glenn Strange	Norton
Earl Dwire	Pat Miller
Frank Ball	Ted
Hooper Atchley	Joe
Jack Kirk	Outlaw Deputy
Sherry Tansey	Actor

Technical Credits

Robert Tansey

Robert Emmett

Paul Malvern	Producer
Carl Pierson	Director
Robert Tansey	Screenwriter
Robert Emmett	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Although assembled by the identical crew that had filmed John Wayne's previous Monogram/Lone Star Westerns, The New Frontier does benefit from a somewhat larger budget courtesy of Republic's Herbert Yates. That said, the Monogram town set remains the same and Wayne is still not "The Duke" of later super-stardom but a fairly competent young player still finding his way in Hollywood. Yakima Canutt's stunt work is well in evidence as usual, however, and the film offers a meaty role to lantern-jawed Warner Richmond, who more often than not was reduced to playing unnamed henchmen.

All Movie Guide - Hans J. Wollstein