The Showdown – European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.
The Showdown (1940)
Director: Howard Bretherton
Writers: Harold Daniel Kusel, Daniel Kusell, Jack Jungmeyer
Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Britt Wood
Genre: Western, Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 1940 (United States)
Also Known As: Hopalong Cassidy: Uppgörelsen
Filming Locations: Chatsworth Station, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA
Story:
Render, posing as an European Baron, arrives at the Colonel’s ranch where he plans to steal some of his fine race horses, rename them and then race them. Hoppy arrives at the same time and immediately becomes suspicious of the Baron. Winning money from the Baron at poker, he marks the bills. He is robbed but as suspected, the money reappears and it is the Baron that has it.
Review:
The Showdown
Baron Rendor (Morris Ankrum) arrives in town under the pretence of being a horse trader from across the sea in Europe. What no one in town realises is that Rendor is in fact a crooked gambler who is more adept at a bit of horse theft. What the Baron doesn’t count on is the suspicious tendencies of Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) who arrives in town to and immediately thinks there is something dodgy. His feelings are backed when he enters a game of cards with the Baron and after being dealt 4 aces pulls one over on the Baron and then marking his winnings because he knows a sore loser will try and steal them back.
I like how Hoppy expresses his suspicions of someone dodgy with that face expression of his – and when Morris Ankrum, who plays the Baron, appears Hoppy’s suspicious mind starts ticking – especially when he sees regular B-western bad guy Roy Barcroft talking to the horse trader – this briskly-paced western has an intriguing storyline, a tense poker game, a subplot of whether the girl who Lucky takes a shine to his Colonel’s niece and Hoppy gets trapped in a burning barn. Lucky gets the wrong idea about Hoppy and the Colonel’s niece and the villain uses this to his advantage. Written by coltras35 on imdb.com
Also Known As (AKA):
(original title) The Showdown
Australia The Showdown
Brazil O Trunfo é Paus
Canada The Showdown(English)
Denmark Præriens fribyttere
India The Showdown(English)
Ireland The Showdown(English)
New Zealand The Showdown(English)
South Africa The Showdown(English)
Sweden Hopalong Cassidy: Uppgörelsen
United Kingdom The Showdown
United States The Showdown
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