FRONTIER JUSTICE (NineteenThirtyFive) Hoot Gibson, Jane Barnes & Richard Cramer | Western | B&W

Frontier Justice is a 1935 black-and-white Western film directed by Robert F. McGowan starring Hoot Gibson based on the novel by Colonel George Brydges Rodney. Produced for Walter Futter's Diversion Pictures, it was rereleased by Grand National Pictures in 1937 and later reissued by Astor Pictures in the 1940s.

SYNOPSIS
In order to seize his cattle ranch to turn it into a sheep pasture, a wealthy sheepman and a crooked doctor have the ranch owner Sam Holster certified insane and placed in an insane asylum. His son returns from five years in Baja California to stop the range war and set things straight using his six gun and a variety of mail order practical joke devices.

When Brent Halston returns he finds his father in an insane asylum and Wilton about to foreclose on their ranch and bring sheep onto the cattle range. When Wilton kills a rancher, Brent is blamed and jailed. Escaping jail he gets Ware to confess that he payed to have Halston committed. He then gets unexpected help from Ethel Gordon when Wilton tries to foreclose.

CAST & CREW
Hoot Gibson as Brent Halston
Jane Barnes as Ethel Gordon
Richard Cramer as Gilbert Ware
Roger Williams as James Wilton
John Elliott as Ben Livesay
Franklyn Farnum as Lawyer George Lessin
Lloyd Ingraham as Dr. Close
Joseph W. Girard as Samuel Halston
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Snowflake
George Yeoman as Sheriff Sam Simon

Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Screenplay by Scott Darling, Homer King Gordon (additional dialogue)
Based on the novel by Colonel George Brydges Rodney
Produced by Walter Futter
Cinematography Arthur Reed
Edited by Carl Himm
Music by Lee Zahler
Production company Walter Futter Productions
Distributed by Diversion Pictures, Grand National Pictures
Release date 1 October 1935
Running time 58 minutes
Country United States
Language English