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Binding: DVD
EAN: 5030462051116
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Sales Rank: 228826
Theatrical Release Date: July 20, 1935
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Not one of the better "pre-Wayne" Wanye films.
Paradise Canyon (Carl Pierson, 1935)
Another pre-Stagecoach John Wayne Lone Star short, this one with Wayne playing John Wyatt, an undercover marshal trying to get to the bottom of a counterfeiting ring by infiltrating a medicine show run by the ringleader's old partner, who's gone as legit as a medicine show mogul can be. It's relatively amusing, though the medicine show scenes tend to be far too long, killing any pace the movie might have built up. But then you don't watch these for ... Read More
Rating: - The last of John Wayne's early westerns for Lone Star
"Paradise Canyon" is the last of the sixteen B Westerns that a young John Wayne made for poverty row studio Monogram's Lone Star division between 1933 and 1935. Directed by Carl Pierson, the first of three cheap Westerns the long time film editor directed, you need to know right from the start that they did not save the best for last in this series despite the promise of the tagline: "The fight at Robber's Roost...It Teems With Action!" But Wayne did well enough to move on after this one to Republic ... Read More
Rating:  - Good for what ails you
Paradise Canyon isn't one of John Wayne's more memorable early westerns, but it is something of a hoot to watch. In this film, Wayne plays a lawman who goes to work undercover with a traveling medicine show in an effort to catch a gang of counterfeiters along the Mexican border. The good doctor, whose fabulous Indian elixir is 90% alcohol, served time for counterfeiting a few years earlier when his "partner" turned states' evidence and set him up for the fall, so Wayne's character starts his investigation ... Read More
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