Just perfect...

Awesome Movie

An absolute waste of money

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

SPOILERS *** Pretty decent short-a-rolo from Warner Brothers.. rich land owners of early California, Los Angeles to be exact, deal with the authorities over a tax debt that may or may not be actually owed. Early settlers were given large chunks of land to farm, and here we see some dirty dealings to try to take it away from them. Historically, I guess it would be accurate to hear Spanish language and peoples' names said in such a non-Spanish traditional manner. It looks like Lupita Tovar (plays Dolores) was the only cast member actually born in Mexico. has an interesting story on wikipedia. Lived to 106 ! This one has the usual gun fights, cattle, bar-room brawls. Not bad. Directed by Ross Lederman, who had started as a keystone cop for mack sennett. Lederman had made a ton of westerns. This short is actually pretty good -- they squeeze a lot of (predictable) action into those 18 minutes. IMDb says 20 minutes, The entry on tcm.com shows 18 minutes. Hmmm.

. . . undocumented immigrant "Dolores" says to her White Foster Brother "Steve" as she tries to lure him into incestuous miscegenation during Warner Bros.' live-action short, GUN TO GUN. "Dolores" means sad, and it's a sad state of affairs when Leader Trump is required to forsake his Business Empire in order to keep Mexico from entwining itself with America's Values like Poison Ivy, to paraphrase this chick's Siren Song of "Peace and Good Will." Dolores seems keen during GUN to let Steve do all the dirty work of driving cattle down endless dusty trails, as she herself spends lazy afternoons taking tequila-fueled siestas. If it were not for Leader Trump, most Legitimate U.S. families would go bankrupt slaving to pay taxes to build schools, hospitals, roads, and housing for economic malingerers too lazy to clean up their own nation and correct the scandalous corruption that they've put off dealing with for Centuries of Tomorrows. If you watch GUN closely, you'll see Warner giving us site plans for Leader Trump's Great Wall.

Gun to Gun (1944) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Decent two-reel Western from Warner has Don Diego not paying taxes on his cattle and when a man comes to collect, the rancher agrees to give over one thousand cattle instead. He gets the trusted Steve Randall (Robert Shayne) to take the cattle but he soon realizes that they're dealing with crooked men. GUN TO GUN was one of a handful of Westerns that Shayne made at Warner during this period and each of them vary in quality. This one here isn't too bad but I think a better screenplay certainly would have helped matters. I say this because the entire story is uneven right from the start and it gets more confusing as it moves along. It's often hard to tell what the writer is wanting to get across and if this is going to be some sort of political issue or your typical Western crooks. Shayne is good in his role of the good guy but this is the type of character he could play in his sleep. Lupita Tovar is good as the love interest and not to mention easy on the eyes. Pedro de Cordoba and Harry Woods are also good. At just 17-minutes the film moves well enough so fans of the genre will want to check it out.

GUN TO GUN is a two-reel remake of Warner's 1930 THE LASH, both based on the story, "Adios" by Lanier and Virginia Stivers Bartlett. Ed Earl Repp's screenplay is set in the Los Angeles of the 1850's, a group of tumbledown shacks surrounded by Spanish ranches and haciendas.Don Diego (Pedro de Cordova)is a large ranch owner, the uncle of Dolores (Lupita Tovar) and the guardian of a young American, Steve Randall (Robert Shayne.) Steve has just delivered a large herd of cattle to the ranch, where Don Diego has just found out that he must pay the local tax commissioner, Harkness (Harry Woods)a fine for unpaid taxes on a herd of over one-thousand cattle.STeve offers to drive the cattle to the commissioners office, even though he fells the fine is unjust. Arriving at the office, Steve learns that Harkness (who he has never met), who has a reputation for dishonesty, is out.Dropping by the cantina, Steve gets into a fight with Harkness, and Harkness swears vengeance on Steve, especially after Steve stampedes the cattle through the town.