The Silver Bullet

When the story begins, Jim (Johnny Mack Brown) stops the stage at gunpoint. However, it turns out NOT to be a robbery but a left arm check! Huh??!! Yes, it seems that years ago, a masked man killed Jim's father and shot Jim in the back and the only evidence he has about the killer is that he has a huge scar on his left arm. When Jim later arrives in town, all sorts of minions are waiting to kick his butt...because their boss IS the man with the scar. This scarred man also is a state senator from their state of Wyoming....and he's always careful to keep his scar hidden. In fact, when the local doctor sees it, he is murdered to prevent him telling anyone! Surely Jim's gonna have a hard time pinning down this slick villain!!

Along for the ride is Brown's sidekick played well by Fuzzy Knight and the film is fun. My only complaint was all the singing...just too much. Plus Brown wasn't a singer and that is one of the big reasons I generally like his westerns...but this one was jam-packed with yodeling fools...for good or for bad.

By the way, in the election in the film you see a woman running for office and women out voting for her. Well, this is NOT historically inaccurate, as although in most of the USA women were denied the vote until the early 1920s, it was a done deal from the time it was a territory.