Rod Cameron

Cathy Downs

Reed Hadley

Anne Gwynne

Blake Edwards

Henry Hall

Dick Crockett

Rory Mallinson

Charles Judels

Alex Gerry

Francis McDonald

J. Farrell MacDonald

Stanley Andrews

Jeff York

Charles La Torre

Frank Dae

James Harrison

Billy Wayne

Trevor Bardette

Ivan Bell

Buck Bucko

Roy Bucko

Wheaton Chambers

Ben Corbett

Rube Dalroy

Tex Driscoll

Tom Fadden

Art Felix

John Frawley

Michael Gaddis

Herman Hack

Neal Hart

Herbert Heywood

Ray Jones

Charles Jordan

Billy Kimbley

Louis Mason

Frank Mayo

Mathew McCue

Tina Menard

Tom Monroe

Lew Morphy

George Morrell

Artie Ortego

Bud Osborne

Jack Perry

Hank Patterson

Bud Rae

Jack Roper

Tony Roux

Frank J. Scannell

Charles Soldani

Cap Somers

Guy Teague

Rosa Turich

Wally Walker

Anthony Warde

Lee 'Lasses' White

Lesley Selander

John C. Champion

Frank Fox

Rex Dunn

Vin Taylor

Harry Neumann

Dave Milton

Richard V. Heermance

Raymond Boltz Jr.

Harry Lewis

Western

Panhandle

Champion-Edwards Productions

Allied Artists Pictures

United States of America

John Sands: Even Billy the Kid backed down from him!

Panhandle is directed by Leslie Selander and written by John C. Champion and Blake Edwards. It stars Rod Cameron, Cathy Downs, Reed Hadley, Anne Gwynne, Blake Edwards, Dick Crockett and Rory Mallinson. Music is by Rex Dunn and cinematography by Harry Neumann.

John Sands (Cameron) has to return to his gunfighter ways when news reaches him that his brother has been murdered... 

Filmed in Sepiatone and a little more serious than many other 1940's Westerns, Panhandle is a satisfying experience for genre enthusiasts. Formula is rife as we would come to know it in Oaters, though, as picture ticks off the check list: badman turned good who is forced to turn bad again for revenge, romance tingling in the air, quick draw shoot-outs, punch-up, weasel villain and his hired cronies, poker games with the inevitable cheat called out and the "hooray" finale. All of which is nicely directed and performed by the cast. The location scenery doesn't get much chance to shine through, and in truth the Sepiatone does little to improve the picture, but this is easily recommended to the Western faithful. 7/10

CinemaSerf

Randolph Scott lookalike Rod Cameron is "Sands", a former lawman who travels to a Texas town to investigate the shooting of his newspaper-man brother. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers the town, indeed the territory, under the heel of "Matt Garson" (Reed Hadley). With the help of his secretary "Dusty" (Cathy Downs) he vows to avenge his brother's death. It's quite eerily shot - much of the action takes place at night, in torrential rain, but the story is all just a bit too well travelled, and neither the actors nor the script offer much by way of innovation. This is still a perfectly watchable B-feature that dawdles for the first half hour before finally picking up just enough speed to hold the attention. It's too long - but then films were frequently elongated to accommodate the paying public's appetite for cinema, rather than because the story justified it.

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