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Genres: RomanceWest
Starring: Francis McDonald, Ray Bennett, Victor Jory, Albert Dekker, Robert Armstrong, Hobart Cavanaugh, Douglas Fowley
Director(s): George Archainbaud
Country: USA
Year: 1943
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
IMDB Rating: 5.9 out of 10 (87 votes)
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that hes been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
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Visitors Review
Arne Andersen (20 May 2012)
Brisk Grade B western with a twist.
This is a small grade film with a twist. A marshall turns on the corrupttown officials who appointed him to office. He spends the rest of thefilmbattling both them and the usual outlaws. Richard Dix is fine in a rolethat is made for him. Jane Wyatt provides the love interest. Victor Joryas the suave but all too human villain is also memorable. This receivedanOscar nom for Original Score - probably not deserving.
jetan (20 May 2012)
Good One.
This probably doesn't deserve the "B Movie" sobriquet. The productionvalues are pretty high and it is quite heavy on the movie stars. Thislooks to me like it would have taken the A spot on a bill. Dix is goodbut Victor Jory nearly steals the show. The high point is likely one ofthe most over-the-top barroom brawls I've ever seen on celluloid. Thescript is also fine, although nothing too original. The low point inthe movie....aside from a really unfortunate racial caricature.... isprobably represented by a really ghastly World War II style showgirlroutine based around "When Johnny Comes Marching Home". All in all, asatisfying show.
Mike-764 (19 May 2012)
Excellent Dix Vehicle
In Broken Lance, Kansas, John Bonniwell averts the Jesse James gang fromholding up the town bank, but is severely wounded in the process. When heawakes in the hospital, he finds that he has been elected town marshall,with high recommendations from the bank owner and leading citizen, SteveBarat. Bonniwell accepts the job (especially after getting an eyeful of thehotel owner Eleanor Sager) even though he knows that he was only appointedto become a pawn in Barat's scheme to bleed Broken Lance, and the Kansas,dry. Bonniwell's position is put to the test when Barat sues Bonniwell'sfriend Waggoner for running his cattle without paying the $1 a head tollenforced by Barat. When he sees that Bonniwell isn't going to be controlledso easily, Barat has Bonniwell's enemies go after him followed by an attemptby Barat's gambling brother, Jeff (who seems to be playing both sides of thestandoff, while in love with Eleanor). Bonniwell then starts to rid BrokenLance of Barat's influence without losing his life, or anyone else's, in theprocess. Very good western with an excellent script, direction,characterization, and performances by everyone. Dix is right at home asBonniwell, even though he seems awkward at times. Jory gives one of his bestperformances as Jeff, and his characterization is very surprising anddifferent from others in the genre. The movie also contains one of thebiggest barroom free for alls in any western, with everyone getting into thefracas. Only flaw was the climax was not as action packed as other sequencesin the movie, but still a winner all the way. Rating, based on B westerns(this may count as a B+ however), 9.
planktonrules (19 May 2012)
The presence of Richard Dix elevates this one...
This is a decent and generally unremarkable western. But, because itstars Richard Dix, it comes off a bit better. While not a householdname, Dix was a very fine actor--mostly because he played a great'everyman'--a believable and rugged guy who was no pretty-boy. Solid,dependable and making the most of his material, he pretty much makesthis film worth watching.The film begins well, as it's pretty creative. Dix is a stranger in anew town and soon after arriving, there's a bank robbery. He happens tobe in the right place at the time and is able to thwart the robbers. Hegets them but is injured in the process. Here's the twist--when heawakens, he hears the crowd outside his window celebrating the electionof a new sheriff...and that sheriff turns out to be HIM! Too good to betrue? Yep. That's because a powerful rich guy has his own reasons forhaving the stranger become sheriff. Fortunately, Dix's character is ondummy. What's next? See this one yourself.Overall, not a bad little film. Despite a VERY familiar plot, Dix andsome decent baddies (Victor Jory and Albert Dekker) are able to elevatethis one to more than just another time-passer.
bkoganbing (11 May 2012)
The voice of the people make him marshal
The producing/directing team of Harry Sherman and George Archaimbaudwho turned out a couple dozen Hopalong Cassidy movies moved away fromHoppy and the Bar 20 to give us The Kansan, an independent film fromUnited Artists. This western stars Richard Dix as the Shane likecharacter who takes a hand in stopping a bank robbery by the notoriousJames gang. Dix gets good and shot up for his troubles, but while he'son the mend he finds he's been elected town marshal.Engineering his election is town banker Albert Dekker who has manyinterests, legal and extralegal and he'd like a gun-hand like Dix asmarshal to look after those interests. Dekker has cause for regret asDix takes the job very seriously. Dix also starts courting Jane Wyattthe local innkeeper.That doesn't sit well with Victor Jory who is Dekker's brother. ButJory plays a lone hand in life as the film unfolds.Dix's best years on screen were way behind him when he did The Kansan,but he could and does contribute a solid western characterization andgets solid support from the cast. Eugene Palette as a visiting cattlebaron looks a bit lost in the western garb, but he works through it.Western fans will recognize some distinct plot elements the Cecil B.DeMille classic Union Pacific. If you do you know exactly how TheKansan will end.
FightingWesterner (11 May 2012)
Tame Western
Bystander Richard Dix stops a bank robbery by the James gang. Badlyinjured, he awakens to find himself unwittingly elected the town's newmarshal, at the behest of local bank president Albert Dekker, who turnsout to be a tyrant who wants Dix firmly under his thumb, a position themarshal has no plans to assume.The best things about this are the presence of Dix and Dekker, as wellas a rowdy saloon fight that has people swinging from chandeliers andrioting uncontrollably. Everything else is too derivative and toomediocre to be memorable.Look fast for George Reeves as Jesse James.
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