Rocky Mountain Mystery [Fighting Westerner] ** (1935, Randolph Scott, Charles ‘Chic’ Sale, Mrs Leslie Carter, Ann Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 6601

Randolph Scott stars in Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935)  as radium mine engineer Larry Sutton, who combines forces with a grumpy sheriff’s deputy, Tex Murdock (Charles ‘Chic’ Sale), in order to try to solve a multiple-murder mystery on a mountain in (guess where?), the Rocky Mountains.

Director Charles Barton’s 1935 support-feature suspense Western is obvious stuff, as obvious as its title, with rocky handling to match.

However, Scott, Sale, Mrs Leslie Carter and Ann Sheridan give good, solid performances, though, and Barton’s direction keeps the mystery and suspense rattling along painlessly in the short running time of just 64 minutes.

The screenplay by Edward E Paramore Jr, with adaptation by Ethel Doherty, is based on Zane Grey’s novel Golden Dreams.

Also in the cast are Kathleen Burke, George F Marion [George Marion Sr], James C Eagles, Florence Roberts, Willie Fung and Howard Wilson.

The Paramount film runs 64 minutes, is shot in black and white by Archie J Stout, produced by Emanuel Cohen and Harold Hurley, scored by Rudolph G Kopp (stock music) and designed by Hans Dreier and David S Garber.

It is also known as Fighting Westerner.

© Derek Winnert 2018 Classic Movie Review 6601

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