Film Critic, Ted Reinhart compiled a list of the “Western
Series Stars and Their Career Best Movie.”
The 1944 film The Drifter is the Buster Crabbe pick.
I’m a mighty big Tarzan fan, and even have a fondness
for the creaky 1933 Tarzan the Fearless starring Mr. Crabbe, so it pains
me to say this low-budget affair in which Crabbe plays dual roles [one dressed
in black, the other in white—guess which one’s the bad guy] makes that bit of
creakiness look like a well-oiled machine.
Crabbe is square-jawed and looks both parts but
hampered by a silly script, clumsy staging and a love-interest with only a
passing familiarity with line readings, well, this is a delve into the past
that provides little reward.
Al St John does offer some rudimentary stunt bicycle
work but…that does not equal a recommendation.
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