Dawn on the Great Divide

(1942)

70 minutes.

Directed by Howard Bretherton

Cast: Buck Jones, Raymond Hatton, Mona Barrie, Robert Lowery, Rex Bell and Maude Eburne

Film / Western / Action

A Rough Riders film. Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks. Town boss Harry Woods and chief henchman Roy Barcroft don't want the railroad coming in because too many settlers might just mean the end of having things their way. Barcroft has a nice little sideline as a white man who runs an outlaw band that attacks and massacres wagon trains to keep the settlement population down. The Rough Riders were originally Buck Jones, Raymond Hatton and Tim McCoy, all of whom started out on the silent screen. McCoy bowed out and Rex Bell took his place as a Rough Rider.