Broadway to Cheyenne

1932 film

1932 (1932)

Running time

60 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Broadway to Cheyenne is a 1932 American pre-Code Western film directed by Harry L. Fraser. The film is also known as From Broadway to Cheyenne (American poster title).^[1] The film successfully combines the Western with the gangster film and vigilante film.

Plot

A young and honest New York Police Department detective "Breezy" Kildare is attempting to arrest B.H. "Butch" Owens, the leader of a gang of criminals who attempted to bribe him. He is wounded in a shootout between Owens' gang and another gang in a Broadway night club.

His police chief allows him to recuperate and cool down in his thirst for justice back in his home of Wyoming where his father is a cattleman. Once arriving back home he soon discovers the gangsters who attempted to bribe and kill him are lying low there and diversifying by starting a Cattleman's Benevolent Association that is actually a protection racket protecting the cattlemen from such perils as having their cattle machine gunned.

When his father is shot in a drive-by shooting, Breezy leads the cattlemen against the well-armed gangsters who no longer have the power of a bribed administration or high-powered legal protection, but now have to face six-gun justice and lynch law.

Cast

Rex Bell as "Breezy" Kildare
Marceline Day as Ruth Carter
Matthew Betz as Joe Carter
Robert Ellis as B.H. "Butch" Owens
George 'Gabby' Hayes as Walrus
Huntley Gordon as New York City Dist. Atty. Brent
Roy D'Arcy as Jess Harvey
Gwen Lee as Mrs. Myrna Wallace
Harry Semels as Louie Walsh
Al Bridge as Al (Owens henchman)
John Elliott as Martin Kildare
Gordon De Main as Rancher
Earl Dwire as Cattleman

References

^ Simmon, Scott (June 30, 2003). The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century. Cambridge University Press. pp. 154, 168. ISBN 978-0-521-55581-4.