DigitalRevenantX7 Slim Braddock, a mine owner who was cheated out of his mine by Williams, a shady businessman, becomes a bandit, robbing any stagecoach that carries Williams' ill-gotten profits. Williams sends a posse out to kill him. Slim is fatally wounded but manages to save his son Tim from the posse. Years later, Tim takes up his father's fight & tries to save a family from ruin by protecting their mine from Williams' plans to demolish it.To be honest, I'm not much of a fan of Westerns. Aside from a few notable exceptions – the Sergio Leone spaghetti Western trilogy & the likes of Rio Bravo and anything Clint Eastwood makes – the genre has been highly limited in what kind of story it could tell about life on the Wild West. And the stories that it did manage to tell were highly simplistic & followed an unfairly rigid pattern of clichés.Bulldog Courage is a minor effort from the early days of the "talkie" – the 1930s to be exact. The story is nothing more than a simple Robin Hood-style tale that is heavily clichéd & almost completely one-dimensional. That said, there are some minor high points in the production – everyone gives a passable performance, particularly Tim McCoy, who excels in the dual roles he is given & Paul Fix is hilariously daft as the jittery demolitions expert hired by the villain to blow up the mine. The biggest bugbear I had with this flick was the el cheapo DVD's poor quality – the film ends abruptly with a shootout that is unresolved (probably due to poor quality of the original master copy).

wes-connors Western miner Tim McCoy (as Slim Braddock) is cheated out of his claim by Karl Hackett (as Williams), but he can't prove anything. So, he becomes "The Phantom" bandit, and robs stages carrying Hackett booty. During a confrontation, Mr. McCoy is wounded; he dies in the care of son Eddie Buzard (as young Tim Braddock). Mr. Buzard quickly grows into McCoy (as old Tim Braddock), which is the main Braddock role. After pretty Joan Woodbury (as Helen Brennan) is introduced, the characters' ages are difficult to discern.McCoy is an odd "Phantom"; he makes no effort to hide his identity, and is plainly visible as "Slim Braddock". He also terrorizes citizens with kindness, and makes minor repairs on the coaches he robs. The most entertaining part of "Bulldog Courage" occurs when Paul Fix (as Bailey) arrives to blow-up a mine; he really uses his "noodle." After Mr. Fix is detained, McCoy does a wild impersonation of "Bailey"; with his obvious ability to memorize dialogue, and capture a character, "Braddock" should have been an actor instead of a minor.

kidboots Tim McCoy's first film was "The Covered Wagon" where he was employed as an Indian technical director and also did some trick riding.In 1935 McCoy made 10 Westerns for Puritan Pictures, in which he tried to expand his acting abilities.Even though he was in his 40s when "Bulldog Courage" was made he was definitely believable in the dual roles he played - that of father and son. Tim McCoy plays Slim Braddock, a mine owner turned stage coach robber. His mine has been taken by the sheriff and as he says in a note "as long as the mine is paying - I'll keep collecting". He is known as "The Phantom" and after he is killed his son, Tim (also played by Tim McCoy) comes back to try to bring his father's killers to justice. His father's old friend is being forced to sell his mine. He is trying to stand firm but his mine is being sabotaged. Joan Woodbury is the old friend's fiery daughter.Paul Fix, makes an early film appearance as a dynamite salesman. There is a scene where Tim McCoy impersonates the explosives expert in a very insightful way - he becomes very animated and has his personality down pat.Yes, there are mine explosions before the rather abrupt ending. For 60 minutes, it is a pretty good western.

classicsoncall This is one of the more solid 'B' Westerns you'll find going back to 1935, with Tim McCoy cast in a dual role as swindled mine owner Slim Braddock, and later as the grown up son Tim Braddock, back for revenge on the outlaw that stole his father's mine claim. The picture even does an admirable job of aging bad guy Williams (Karl Hackett) over the course of the generation that Tim Braddock grows up to manhood, even though McCoy looks closer to his real age of forty four at the time of the film, as opposed to ten years younger as the story suggests. Funny, but this was the first time I noticed McCoy's resemblance to the young Lloyd Bridges, they could have been brothers - take a look!Probably the most entertaining part of the film had to do with the introduction of explosives expert Bailey, wonderfully portrayed by Paul Fix. If you followed the classic Western TV series 'The Rifleman', you might recognize him as future Marshal of North Fork, Micah Torrance; there are times in the picture that his profile gives it away. Even better, Tim McCoy picks up on Bailey's palaver in a subsequent scene to impersonate someone who actually knows what he's talking about. It's one of the most creative devices I've seen in a Western going back this far.I had to go back and replay a couple of scenes to be sure, but check out the first time Tim Braddock enters Brennan's mine - there's a sign posted above the entrance that states 'Blue Ridge Mine'. Later, when Braddock and Brennan leave by the same way, the sign is no longer there. It makes it's appearance and disappears again later in the story.You've got to give credit to the film makers (Puritan Pictures) for maintaining a consistent story throughout, even with the shifting plot elements. It's also one of the few early Westerns where the second billed female lead really doesn't figure very much in the story, even as a romantic interest for McCoy. In fact, she's told a couple of times to mind her own business as the men figure out how to trap villain Williams. Check out the early court room scene that had me scratching my head - when Williams' lawyer objects to the judge! He was over ruled.