The Man from Utah
- John Wayne: John Weston
- George Hayes: Marshal George Higgins
- Polly Ann Young: Marjorie Carter
- Anita Campillo: Dolores
- Edward Peil Sr.: Spike Barton
- Yakima Canutt: Cheyenne Kent
- George Cleveland: Powell
- Bert Dillard: Nevada Sheriff
- Earl Dwire: Moderator of Rodeo Show
- Phil Dunham: bartender
- Tex Phelps: Cramer and a follower
- Lafe McKee: Judge Carter
Rodeo is a Western of the Lone Star Series Lone Star Productions. It was released in the distribution of Monogram Pictures Corporation on May 15, 1934. Directed by Robert N. Bradbury.
Action
John Weston is commissioned in search of work from Marshal George Higgins to help with the investigation of irregularities at the Dalton Valley Rodeo. The winner seems at rodeos in the neighborhood always stood firm to have better participants had to have been prematurely killed by a needle with snake venom. The same thing he feared now in Dalton Valley. John should contact the band to make this ultimately apprehended.
Both ride together to Dalton Valley. On the way, John watched as the stagecoach located on the same path to be attacked. He throws the attacker coming from behind one after the other from his horse, and so thwarted the attack. One of the two female passengers, Marjorie Carter, invites him to her home. Her father, played by Lafe McKee, be judge and owner of the local bank.
Shortly after arrival, the two men get to know and Carter John offers a job as sheriff. He told him that he had doubts about the reliability of the rodeo organizers, especially since these also controlled the betting shops. John refuses the job. On the first day of the rodeo is led by Spiker Barton gang that organized the rodeo and finds that John Weston could actually be better than her own husband Chayenne Kent. She decides to John but for once not to kill but to beat up, to prevent him from further participation and thus the overall victory.
In the evening, John receives an invitation from Marjorie but also of Dolores, who had also traveled with the coach. John had observed that she had given the robbers at the stagecoach robbery secretly a sign with a handkerchief. For tactical reasons, he takes on Dolores ' invitation to disappointment Marjorie. At home it his main opponent will be presented in rodeo competition Chayenne of Dolores as her brother. In the course of the conversation the light and members of the gang goes out to try to beat John according to the plan. John escapes and wants to bring the local sheriff the incident to the display. The sheriff does not believe him.
Later in the saloon talking to John Spiker, excuse the attack on John by his people with confusion and offers him $ 2000 if he does not win the competition the next day. John goes to a note on the business and get to know the other members of the gang. Spiker has no intention of John to spare. On the second day of the suspicious remaining John also finds a needle in his seat before he sits down on the horse. While he won the rodeo competition, the gang attacks the local bank.
Dolores tells John with the facts, then John rides into town immediately. Arrived the local sheriff wants him arrested as a member of the gang, but is forced by the Marshal to let John free. John immediately assumes the prosecution of the perpetrators at all, poses Spiker and passes it along with the poisoned needle in evidence the Marshal. Back in the city, he married Marjorie.
Background information
The film was made as part of the Lone Star Series. In this film, John Wayne is seen as the Singing Cowboy with the song Sing Me a Song of the Wild, but his singing is not from him but from Jack Kirk.
The movie was filmed in Alabama Hills and the Owens River in Lone Pine. Some rodeo scenes are taken from archive material in which the rodeo rider Sam Garrett is seen.
In the film, some minor and major goof are discovering a smaller error can be seen on the basis of a poster. The film presents itself in the look of a western playing in the old western days. However, on a poster an advertisement for a rodeo show to see which took place on 1 May 1932.
The film was in America because of his age to the public domain Good. In Germany the film along with the John Wayne movies and MacLintock showdown on Adlerpaß in the John Wayne Collection was published in the FNM.