Coroner Creek

3/25/2014

He's lost his spirit, you can see it in his eyes. Out in the remote Southwest a stagecoach his held up by renegade Apache Indians led by a mysterious white man. All bar one of the passengers are killed, the other, a female, is taken as captive but takes her own life rather than suffer any more indignities. That woman was the fiancée of cowboy Chris Denning, who upon learning of the news vows revenge and goes in search of the mysterious leader. A search that takes him to the small town of Coroner Creek... Coroner Creek doesn't mess about, it's a tough, no nonsense Oater that may have flecks of humour, and pretty gal familiarities, but most assuredly thrives on its darkly revenge driven core. Directed by Ray Enright and starring genre supremo Randolph Scott as Denning, Coroner Creek is

7/9/2022

Randolph Scott is "Danning", a man bent on revenge after his fiancée is killed. He learns early on from the local hotel owner "Kate" (Marguerite Chapman) that the culprit was George Macready ("Younger Miles") and now employed by determined local ranch owner "Della" (Sally Eilers) he plots his revenge. The storyline of this film all now follows a pretty well trodden path, though it is interesting to see Scott play someone a little nastier than usual and the women in the film are given much more substantial roles in the development of the story. Edgar Buchanan turns in a lively cameo as the sheriff but otherwise Macready is pretty hopeless as the baddie, and the plot sort of stutters along until a really disappointing, slightly puritanical, ending. It's an adequate western that runs bang on