Fighting Westerner/Boots & Saddle

Rating:
Summary: RADIUM MINE/HORSE TRADERS
Review: FIGHTING WESTERNER-Randolph Scott investigates a murder at a radium mine. This was initially a Paramount release based on a Zane Grey story. It doesn't have that hurried feel of a B-movie(if this was) and the sets/locations are substantial. Of note is the sound of the mine machinery. The heavy clomp-clomp really is foreboding. The images are pretty clear, but there is an annoying hiss throughout the movie.

Boots and Saddles-Gene Autry has to sell horses and win a race to save the ranch. This was a Republic release. I'm not a fan Autry, but this movie is fairly engaging. You've got a couple of tunes, some comic relief and horses. The image is clear and there is no hiss.

Both movies were made before 1940.