Western favorites
Ray "Crash" Corrigan and
Hoot Gibson head the cast of the 12-chapter Republic serial
The Painted Stallion.
Corrigan plays American federal agent Steve Clark, on assignment in Santa Fe to draw up a trade agreement with the newly installed Mexican governor. Meanwhile, Walter Jamison (
Hoot Gibson) leads a wagon train from Missouri, hoping to take advantage of the new agreement. Among Jamison's passenger are famed frontiersman Jim Bowie (
Hal Taliaferro) and a very youthful Kit Carson (
Sammy McKim). The destinies of all these personalities intersect when villainous ex-governor DuPrey (
LeRoy Mason) schemes to undermine the treaty and take over the New Mexico territory for his own vile purposes. Somewhere along the way, Davy Crockett (
Jack Perrin) joins the "good guys" in their efforts to thwart the despicable DuPrey. Years after the release of
The Painted Stallion, film historian
William K. Everson waxed rhapsodic over a particulary exciting chapter ending-then commented that he hoped never to see that particular ending again, just in case it proved to be less exciting than he remembered. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide