A Johnny Mack Brown western from Supreme Pictures, one of the smallest
of the poverty-row studios. Brown plays Billy Donovan, a drifter who
rides into a valley looking for the man who murdered his sister and
hires on at the Halloran ranch, where a masked night rider the locals
call the Phantom has been picking off anyone who gets too close to a
stolen fortune. Directed by S. Roy Luby, who cut his teeth editing
B-westerns before moving into the director's chair. The phantom-rider
gimmick gives it a whiff of the era's "weird western" cycle — more
mystery than shootout. The film entered the public domain after its
copyright was not renewed.
Western
