BIG CALIBRE (1935) Bob Steele, Peggy Campbell & Forrest Taylor | Western | B&W

Big Calibre is a 1935 American Western film produced by Supreme Pictures and directed by Robert N. Bradbury. It premiered on March 8, 1935. The film features Bob Steele as Bob O'Neill, a stockgrower who, seeking vengeance for his murdered father, goes after the murderer, crazed scientist Otto Zenz (Bill Quinn).

SYNOPSIS
Rancher Bob O'Neill's father is gassed to death by lunatic Otto Zenz. In a bid to avenge his father, Bob tracks the scientist down, and they eventually have a showdown in the dry plains.

Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escaping, Neal joins up with pretty June Bowers whose father has apparently also been murdered. Neal, suspecting two of the town's leading businessmen of being the murderers, tries to flush them out before the sheriff can lock him up again.

Bob Neal (Bob Steele) sells $60,000 worth of cattle for his father who, while taking the money to the bank, is mysteriously killed. On the trail of his father's murderers, Bob runs into another mystery, and is himself arrested and falsely accused of killing an old friend of his father. The sheriff, convinced of Bob's innocence, permits him to escape . On the loose, Bob wins the heart of June Bowers (Peggy Campbell), the daughter of his father's longtime friend.

CAST & CREW
Bob Steele as Bob O'Neill
Peggy Campbell as June Bowers
Forrest Taylor as Banker Bentley
John Elliott as Rusty Hicks
Georgia O'Dell as Arabella
William Quinn as Otto Zenz, aka Gadski (credited as Bill Quinn)
Earl Dwire as Sheriff of Gladstone
Frank Ball as Jim Bowers
Si Jenks as Square Dance Caller (credited as Cy Jenks)

Directed by Robert N. Bradbury
Screenplay by Robert N. Bradbury, Story by Perry Murdock
Cinematography William Hyer
Edited by S. Roy Luby
Production company Supreme Pictures
Release date March 8, 1935
Running time 58 minutes
Country United States
Language English

NOTES
Film critic Bob Magers considers Big Calibre to be one of Steele's finer films.