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Drift Fence (1936)
Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis, who, at a rodeo, meets city dweller Jim Traft (Benny Baker), who has come west to erect a fence that will prevent Clay Jackson (Stanley Andrews) from continuing his cattle rustling business. A tough Western type, Travis suggests that he impersonate Traft and the building of the fence soon begins. But Travis is opposed by Slinger Dunn (Crabbe) and his family, whose small ranch will suffer from the division of the land. A romance between Travis and Slinger's sister, Paula (Katherine DeMille), paves the way for a meeting of the minds, however, and Slinger switches sides completely upon learning that Travis is a Texas Ranger in disguise. An in-house production (as opposed to Harry Sherman's Hopalong Cassidy Westerns), Drift Fence was the closest Paramount came to a B-Western in the mid-'30s. Zane Grey's original novel was published in 1932.
Updated May 22 2020
Cast
Buster Crabbe
'Slinger' Dunn
Tom Keene
Jim Travis
Katherine DeMille
Molly Dunn (as Katherine de Mille)
Benny Baker
Jim Traft
Crew
Hans Dreier
Art Direction
Virgil Miller
Director of Photography
Otho Lovering
Director
A.E. Freudeman
Set Decoration
Everett Douglas
Editor
William T. Lackey
Associate Producer
Robert Yost
Screenplay
Zane Grey
Novel
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