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bkoganbing One of the nastiest villains that Roy Rogers ever tangled with was played by Grant Withers in Night Time In Nevada. He kills three of his partners during the course of this film.The first one was his partner in a mine played by Jim Nolan and told to another partner in flashback. George M. Carleton is your basic shyster attorney and they plot to do Nolan's now grown daughter Adele Mara out of a trust fund that Nolan set up for her and which lawyer Carleton has been bilking over the years.Another murder, that of beloved train engineer Joseph Crehan, brings Roy Rogers, Andy Devine and the Sons Of The Pioneers into the mix. With Mara and girlfriend Elaine Edwards now arrived the bad guys are of course brought to justice.Other than the classic Big Rock Candy Mountain there are no really good songs in this Roy Rogers film. But that's made up for in the action which comes fast and furious. The climax is well staged with Roy holding off the bad guys on a moving train.Roy's Saturday matinée kid crowd definitely loved this one.

classicsoncall Very odd, it seems like every reviewer on this board so far saw a different version of the film. My copy stated the picture in color at sixty seven minutes, but it was somewhat shorter and in black and white. The only song, if you can call it that, was a brief one liner with engineer Casey (Joseph Crehan) joining Roy and The Pioneers 'for old times sake'.Speaking of Casey, watch the scene closely where one of the bad guys shoots him while running the train. Did that bullet do a U-turn in mid air? Another example of the impossible logistics these old time Westerns often relied on. But I'm not complaining.Once the story gets underway, State Police captain Cookie Bullfincher swears in Roy as a deputy to solve a couple of crimes involving Roy's stolen cattle and a missing trust fund due Joan Andrews (Adele Mara), who's father was murdered twenty years earlier.You know what's spooky? I watched another flick just last night where a woman turning twenty one the very next day arrives on the scene to claim her inheritance. Her father also died in a mine cave-in twenty years ago. The picture was "Topper Returns" from 1941. What are the odds? Anyway, back to Nevada. Except for the early scene where Joan and her friend Toni Borden (Marie Harmon) take the stowaway cowboys on a joyride through the desert, the picture is played fairly straight with Andy Devine's character. He often plays a comedic sidekick to Roy, but here he was a pretty no-nonsense lawman. Still, when Cookie and Roy emerge from their jostling camper ride, they both have to clean up their flour-do.What's never in question with one of Roy's pictures, the bad guys lose in the end. But you know, I have to question Roy's common sense sometimes, like boarding Farrell's (Grant Withers) down hill, runaway cattle truck and duking it out with him with nothing but mountain on one side and air on the other. Not the kind of chance I'd bet the ranch on, even if I were King of the Cowboys.Say, does anyone know what happened to Toni?

FightingWesterner A ruthless gold miner blows his partner, only to discover that the mine he killed for is useless. He then squanders the trust-fund meant for the dead man's daughter and attempts to replace the funds by stealing Roy Roger's cattle.Coming near the end of Roy's career as a Saturday matinée star (and TV re-launch), Night Time In Nevada is more violent and a bit more hard-boiled than previous films. The opening scene is a first-person murder confession, the subsequent killing of the train conductor pretty cold-blooded, and the climax full of people getting shot!Villain Grant Withers is one really mean hombre! Walking and talking like a B-movie Broderick Crawford, he gives a great, nasty performance.Comedic elements are down-played and Dale Evans nowhere to be found. In the edited version, Roy nor Bob Nolan and The Sons Of The Pioneers get a chance to sing! All of this, along with the edited version being black and white instead of color, contribute to the somewhat darker tone of the film.Recommended.

revdrcac Roy, Trigger & Andy Devine are featured in this 1940's shoot-em-up that involves mining company rip-offs, double-dealing and the obligatory cowboy crooning. The plot and action are pretty standard, and the music is noteworthy -- especially "Rock Candy Mountain". The King of the Cowboys was in fine form in this one, with Andy Devine as one of his better sidekicks (but not as good as Gabby !).The stunts in this film were well done and superior to most in other stars films. I enjoyed this one and felt that the pacing and casting were fairly good. Most of Roger's films from this period seem interchangeable , but fans of the genre should enjoy this ride down the Happy Trails..........