SYNOPSIS:
Lawman Billy Carson [Buster Crabbe] orchestrates a plan that sees a band of prisoners, led by Link Daggett [Kermit Maynard] and Tom Hanlon [Robert Meredith], to escape from their confinement in search of a sizable amount of money, stolen from Piedmont County ranchers, they’ve hidden away. Hanlon has second thoughts about escaping with Daggett and his gang and starts to head back to prison only to be shot in the back by Daggett.
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SYNOPSIS:
Tioga City and its bank president James Kerrigan [Jack Holt] are plagued by a deadly masked bullwhip carrying bandit named “El Azote” (The Scourge) who is robbing stagecoaches and banks across the territory of their gold and cash. Kerrigan decides it is time for action and calls in two men to act as marshal and deputy to drive out the marauder, those two men being Lash LaRue and his bearded sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones [Al St. John]. The two arrive in town with the townsfolk suspicious that LaRue, the master of the bullwhip, is the evil masked robber.
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BOOTLEG FILES 688: “Minstrel Man” (1944 musical).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: On public domain labels.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: A lapsed copyright.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: No one is rushing to digitally restore this title.
When one thinks of the 1940s musicals, few people will automatically cite the Poverty Row mini-studio Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC). Indeed, that cheapo endeavor gained a belated cult following for its thrillers, horror flicks and Westerns, but not for musicals. However, this scrappy little operation created at least one notable musical that snagged a pair of Oscar nominations and brought together an unlikely band of talent.
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