The Daltons Ride Again ** (1945, Alan Curtis, Lon Chaney Jr, Kent Taylor, Noah Beery Jr, Martha O’Driscoll, Thomas Gomez) – Classic Movie Review 9814

Director Ray Taylor’s 1945 Universal Pictures black and white Western double feature film The Daltons Ride Again stars Alan Curtis, Kent Taylor, Lon Chaney Jr and Noah Beery Jr as the four Dalton outlaw brothers.

Emmett Dalton (Curtis), Bob Dalton (Taylor), Grat Dalton (Chaney Jr) and Ben Dalton (Beery Jr) rob a bank controlled by a gang of land-grabbers and swindlers who a friend of their father, and get into trouble when Emmett Dalton (Curtis) romances newspaper editor’s daughter Mary Bohannon (Martha O’Driscoll).

The assets are the good cast, with Chaney Jr and Beery Jr outstanding, a decent support film production and a busy pace, which help compensate for the main downside in the routine and fanciful tale. Thomas Gomez (‘Professor’), Douglass Dumbrille (sheriff) and John Litel (newspaper editor) are also notable.

It is a version of When the Daltons Rode (1940).

Also in the cast are Thomas Gomez, Milburn Stone, Douglass Dumbrille, John Litel, Walter Sande, Virginia Brissac, Stanley Andrews, Fern Emmett, Charles Miller, Ruth Lee, Paul Birch, Richard Alexander, George Chesebro, Davison Clark, Cyril Delevanti, Davison Clark, Henry Hall, Jack Rockwell and Robert J Wilke.

It was shot at Agoura Ranch, Agoura, California; Iverson Ranch, 1 Iverson Lane, Chatsworth, Los Angeles; and Universal Studios, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California.

The Daltons Ride Again is directed by Ray Taylor, runs 72 minutes, is made by Universal Pictures Corporation, is released by Universal Pictures (1945) (US) and General Film Distributors (GFD) (1946) (UK), is written by Roy Chanslor (original screenplay), Paul Gangelin (original screenplay) and Henry Blankfort (additional dialogue), is shot in black and white by Charles Van Enger, is produced by Howard Welsch, is scored by Frank Skinner, and is designed by John B Goodman and Harold H MacArthur.

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