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Monogram Ranch, Placerita Canyon
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Charles Starrett, Claire McDowell, Barbara Weeks, and Bruce Lane in a scene from the Columbia production "Shooting Showdown" in which Starrett is starred. Miss Weeks plays the leading feminine role, and Leon Barsha is the director. Filmed on location at the Monogram Ranch in Placerita Canyon from March 18-31, 1937. Columbia Studios publicity photo. Photo by Irving Lippman, Columbia Studios. Stamped print on back reads:
APPROVED Information From Turner Classic Movies website:
TWO FISTED SHERIFF(1937) ORIGINAL PRINT INFORMATION Release Date: Jun 15, 1937 Working titles for this film were Shooting Shadows and Shooting Showdown. The picture was also reviewed in Motion Picture Daily under the title Two Gun Sheriff. Although Hollywood Reporter production charts list Dick Botiller in the cast, his appearance in the released film has not been confirmed. Modern sources list the following additional cast members: Al Bridge, George Morrell, Tex Cooper, Maston Williams, Blackjack Ward, Hank Bell, Blackie Whiteford, Jack Evans, Fred Parker, Al Haskell, Ray Jones and Wally West.
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Leon Barsha Synopsis: After Sheriff Dick Houston of Remuda Gap captures two men trying to rob a stagecoach, Bob Pearson, his friend and the foreman of the Herrick ranch, helps him bring them back to town. Bob is in love with Molly Herrick, but because her father disapproves of their love, Bob is fired from their ranch. The next day, Herrick is found shot in the back, with Bob standing over him, holding a smoking gun. The townspeople, led by Gargan, a former rustler, want to lynch Bob, but Dick stops them. Bob is taken to jail, where Dick listens to Bob's story and promises to help him. The case is rushed to trial and vigorously prosecuted, and although Molly states that she saw another man attempting to flee the ranch, Bob is found guilty. Dick decides to investigate the case further, and finds some broken matches near the spot where Herrick was killed. Meanwhile, Molly visits Bob at the jail, and seeing a mob forming outside, helps him to escape. Because Dick left the prisoner alone, Judge Webster takes away his badge. When Dick learns that Bob is at his old ranch, the Flying H, in Buckhorn, Dick goes there and is warned about outlaw Bill Slagg. As Bob tries to infiltrate Slagg's gang, Dick agrees to help the investigation at the Flying H, where Molly is now living with her aunt, Miss Herrick. Dick gets into a fight with Burke and Barstow, two of Slagg's men, and throws them off the ranch. Later, Dick enters a local saloon just as Bob is being inducted into the Slagg gang. After Dick leaves, Slagg states that he plans to kill Dick himself. When Dick returns to the saloon, Slagg deliberately cracks a matchstick, an admission that he killed Herrick. A shootout ensues, and just as the judge is about to arrest Dick, the dying Slagg confesses he killed Herrick out of revenge. After saying farewell to newlyweds Bob and Molly at the Flying H, Dick returns to his job as sheriff.
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