Bob Steele Double Feature: Mesquite Buckaroo (1939) / The Red Rope (1937)

Mesquite Buckaroo (1939, B&W): Aunt Sarah is so sure that her nephew, rodeo champ Bob Allen, is a shoe-in to repeat in this year's championship, that she literally bets the farm on him. Gangsters from the East see a fortune to be made betting against Bob. When the mobsters cannot bribe him to take a dive, they kidnap him. Bob must escape by morning or he will not only lose the championship, but his family will lose their ranch.

Stars Bob Steele, Charles King, Snub Pollard, Bruce Dane, Gordon Roberts (Carleton Young); Directed by Harry S. Webb.

The Red Rope (1937, B&W): For three long years Outlaw "Rattler" Hayne has been ruling te territory with fear and intimidation. There is no man willing to risk his neck to stop him - until Rattler interferes with the wedding of Tom Shaw and Betty Duncan. Tom Shaw is marked for death, and must end Rattler's reign of terror without becoming a criminal himself.

Stars Bob Steele, Lois January, Forrest Taylor, Charles King, Karl Hackett; Screenplay by George H. Plympton; Directed by S. Roy Luby.

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