jvanderwalt5 Firstly i know this movie by its other title"helltown".(its very strange that some movies have a different title in some country's)Its also very seldom that a full story can be told in 60 min this movie did i a great job.The movie is short but the story is well taught.The movie centers around 2 drifters played by John Wayne*dare rudd(brilliant actor) and Sid saylor*dinkie hooley(brilliant comedian) they arrive one day at a small town where dinkie's rich cousin lives. After a while dare starts noticing a girl.......Dare falls in love with dinkies cousin's girl and there for the title helltown cause after that all hell brake loose.The only reason a give this a 5 is bc its in black and white it brings down the quality of the movieSo if you love westerns and John Wayne check this one out.

Michael Morrison Though the copy of "Hell Town" I saw was pretty miserable, the quality of the script and of the acting more than made up for it.John Wayne by the time this was made was already a veteran actor, mostly in B Westerns. That "B" designation, by the way, was purely a reference to the size of the budget, something too many people don't seem to realize.This B Western, despite its budget, had a really intelligent script and a talented director and, most of all, some of the best actors available: John Wayne, Johnny Mack Brown, and the lovely Marsha Hunt, as well as the busy but today under-rated Syd Saylor, who, despite his being the hero's sidekick, doesn't even get screen credit!On a purely personal note, catching this film at westernsontheweb.com gave me my first opportunity ever to see "Hell Town," and I am so very grateful. As many reviewers have written here, this film is a milestone in the Duke's career, giving him an opportunity to show his innate talent, and giving audiences an opportunity to appreciate that talent.It is well past November, but I am giving thanks for my own opportunity to view this remarkable motion picture, and I am grateful to IMDb and to westernsontheweb for the information and the film, which I urge everyone to take time to watch.

Zoooma After six non-western B-movies, John Wayne returns to the saddle for what would be the beginning of the final chapter of his B-movie career. Rather than the standard formulaic B-western where Duke is the known hero who will get the girl, here his cowboy hero status is in question – he has to chase the girl and he's not exactly the squeaky clean character we have always known him as up to this point in his filmography. The story is by acclaimed western novel writer Zane Grey which helps explain how this is different from all that came before it for the Duke.5.7 / 10 stars--Zoooma, a Kat Pirate Screener

John W Chance Much better than John Wayne's early westerns (1932-1935) in terms of script, character development, production values and cast. The beginning, a supposed attempted rustling of a cattle herd is a little too extended and confusing, since it combines so many different unrelated stock footage shots. In a couple of panoramic shots, you see a rider on a golden palomino -- could that be Johnny Mack Brown?Someone noted above that this film revitalized the flagging careers of both John Wayne and Johnny Mack Brown -- they play cousins. It's a pleasure to see them both in the same film playing good guys. Brown, is Tom Fillmore, a level headed successful cattleman and business man, and Wayne is 'Dare' Rudd, surprisingly, a cocky, horny drifter, a role similar to the one he played in "The Desert Trail" (1934) opposite Mary Kornman, but it is even more developed here: Dare loses all of the money from the sale of the herd in a crooked all night game of poker to Hammond and his card sharp, when Tom shows up to regain the money and expose Hammond's crooked scheme.When Dare and Tom's girlfriend, Judy Worstall (the effective Marsha Hunt) catch each other's eye, Dare decides to settle down in their Wyoming town to chase her and seek honorable work. A well played love triangle develops between the three of them while the evil saloon owner, Bart Hammond (Monte Blue), attempts to steal Fillmore's cattle herd, and later, the money for its sale.This film almost reaches first class A level movie making. By 1937 full length musical scores had become common; this one has exciting allegro music during the action scenes, and even a love theme played over Dare and Judy's scenes ("The Hills of Old Wyoming"!) Syd Saylor thankfully plays it straight and tough as the side kick, avoiding his painful 'comic' schtick (stuttering and Adam's Apple neck bobbing) we saw in his earlier films.But we don't get a final battle between Dare and Hammond, the villains are all too easily dispatched in group horseback shootouts; and the only time John Wayne chases after anyone is to catch Judy on her runaway horse. So except for the last minute rescue when Dare and Tom are pinned down by Hammond's henchmen, there isn't all that much action.This probably makes it a better film, but I can only give it a 5.Note: Marsha Hunt is fantastic in the amazingly darkly lit film noir classic "Raw Deal" (1948). When there's a close up of her face as she visits Dennis O'Keefe in prison, you see Christian crosses gleam in her moist eyes. (You also get Raymond Burr as a pyromaniac villain.) She went on to a life time career of television work.