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Colorized Western: Clearing the Range - Kildare kills Curt Fremont’s brother Jim. When Curt arrives he poses as a coward in public but sneaks out unseen to become the daring El Capitan as he looks for the killer.

Clearing the Range (1931)
Director: Otto Brower
Writers: Jack Cunningham (story), Jack Natteford (screenplay and dialogue)
Stars: Hoot Gibson, Sally Eilers, Hooper Atchley
Genre: Western
Country: United States
Language: English
Release Date: 1 April 1931 (USA)
Filming Location: Santa Clarita, California, USA

Storyline:
In this Hoot Gibson version/swipe of the “Zorro” story, sneaky Lafe Kildare, the crooked cashier of a Texas bank, murders the bank president, Jim Fremont, to keep from being exposed as a thief. He covers up his crime, becomes president of the bank and is the leader of a small army of gunmen oppressing the ranchers of Comanche County. Curt Fremont rides in to investigate his brother’s murder, and convinces Kildare that he is a harmless, brainless, worthless, no-account lazy drifter--- and might even be a sissy or a fop ---so Kildare decides he isn’t worth the trouble of having him killed.Curt’s pose also does nothing to impress rancher’s daughter Mary Lou Moran as day-by-day he does nothing but lay around and eat and sleep and ignore Mary Lou, and Mary Lou is not use to being ignored. But… night after night, Curt rides out in a Mexican costume as a bandit called “El Capitan” and harasses Kildare’s business enterprises to the point of becoming a nuisance. Kildare offers a reward for the capture of “El Capitan.” Curt, as “El Capitan” captures himself, robs Kildare of the reward money and turns it over Senora Conares, a Mexican woman whom Kildare has reduced to poverty.
While Kildare and his henchies are out of town on a mission to attach the cattle belonging to Mary Lou’s father, Curt has all the citizens busily firing at a shack where “El Capitan” is supposedly hiding, while he saunters over to the bank and steals the account books, which prove that Kildare is a crook. He captures Kildare’s accomplice, Tom Vache, in the murder of his brother, forces a confession from him and takes him to Sheriff Jim Burke, to whom Curt has already turned over the bank’s books. Kildare, in an escape attempt, is thrown from his horse and almost falls over a cliff, but Curt ropes him and turns him over to the sheriff. Along the way, George Mendoza plays “La Paloma” on a guitar just to reinforce the “Zorro” theme.

Reviews:
“Hoot Gibson had been Universal’s top Western star from the late teens to the late twenties when Ken Maynard overtook him in popularity. His films were the opposite of William S. Hart’s, usually portraying him as a clowning hero who was often worsted in a few fights before he got the girl at the end but audiences liked him because they could relate to him. By 1930 most studios were worried about the future of sound Westerns so Gibson’s contract was not renewed but being still a popular player he was immediately signed by Allied Pictures to do a series on a state’s rights basis. And his first movie “Clearing the Range” also starred his new wife, Sally Eilers, whose beauty greatly enhanced this oater!!

For a 1931 western this definitely has quite a bit of action - lots of riding, some stunts as Curt jumped from his bedroom window to the ground and a big fight scene, very different to the majority of 1930-31 Westerns I have seen which were big on talking and small on action.”

• written by “kidboots” on IMDb.com
  

Also Known As (AKA):
(original title) Clearing the Range
Brazil O Capitão Espalha-Brasa
Greece (transliterated title) Gibson, o atromitos
UK Clearing the Range
USA Clearing the Range

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