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Judy Blake's Scarlet River Ranch is the perfect location for Keene's latest, but the unscrupulous foreman, Jeff Todd (Creighton Chaney), is in cahoots with villainous 'Clink' McPherson (Hooper Atchley), seeking to put her out of business and foreclose.
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Even by 1933, there had been plenty of Westerns that turned around and spoofed themselves with the good looking B-movie lead winking at fans as he plays himself. Scarlet River is one of the better ones, with a healthy budget, some impressive stunts, and a couple of nice cameos added in. Here we have RKO’s Tom Keene whose latest film, a tale of pion...
Early in the film Tom Keene wanders through the RKO commissary. He has a brief talk with Joel McCrea and says hello to Myrna Loy and Bruce Cabbott, among others. Good work if you can get it…
This film is a rare one. Caught it on TCM; hopefully it gets a DVD release soon!With Tom Keene, Dorothy Wilson, Lon Chaney Jr., Betty Furness. Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film. Tom soon learns her foreman has been rustling and poisoning her cattle.
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- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Otto Brower
- 1933-03-10
Scarlet River is a 1933 American pre-Code Western film directed by Otto Brower, written by Harold Shumate, and starring Tom Keene, Dorothy Wilson, Roscoe Ates, Lon Chaney Jr. and Edgar Kennedy. It was released on March 10, 1933, by RKO Pictures.
An actor (Tom Keene) on the set of a cowboy movie rescues a rancher (Dorothy Wilson) from her foreman (Creighton Chaney).
- Western
- Tom Keene
- Otto Brower
Western movie star Tom Baxter (Tom Keene) can't find a location for his newest movie so they decide to head out to a real ranch. Once there he gets caught up with the landowner (Dorothy Wilson) and a corrupt man trying to steal her land.
Frustrated by the lack of good outdoor locations in the Los Angeles area, western film star Tom Baxter decides to move his movie crew out of Hollywood after he sees a photograph of the Scarlet River Ranch, which was sent to the studio by a would-be screenwriter named Ulysses Mope.
