SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Michael O'Keefe This outing Roy Rogers spends more time in the saddle ridin' and shootin' than singin'. Roy and two of his Rough Rider pals Tommy Ward(Eddie Acuff)and Rusty Coburn(Raymond Hatton)team up riding the range and trying to bring an end to corruption in a mining town. When Tommy is gunned down by a notorious outlaw Arizona Jack (William Prawley), Roy and Rusty end up as patrolmen on the Mexican border trying to capture their partner's killer and a gang of gold smugglers. Joseph Kane produces and directs this better than average western. Other players include: Mary Hart, George Meeker, Glenn Strange, Hank Bell, Dorothy Sebastian and Roy's trusty horse Trigger.

bkoganbing It's the end of the Spanish American War and newly mustered out Rough Riders Roy Rogers, Raymond Hatton, and Eddie Acuff get a letter from none other than their former commanding officer and now Vice Presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt recommending them for jobs as border patrolmen in Arizona. Of course with that kind of pull, you know they get hired. Two of their assignments get juxtaposed in Rough Rider's Roundup. The first is to stop and detain a young woman played by Lynne Roberts, but the second is to find out just who is this bandit Arizona Jack who is operating on both sides of the border. When Eddie Acuff is killed by him, the mission gets real personal.Roy sings a song and gets to even yodel in this one and of all the singing cowboys, Rogers was the best yodeler of the bunch. He even gets to clock someone who at the very beginning downgrades the Rough Riders and calls TR an Eastern poser when he tells the guys he's voting for a real westerner in William Jennings Bryan. That's not something you say to a Rough Rider.Funny when that was going and when the guys are hired as border patrolmen without question on TR's word, I was thinking of another Republic picture, War Of The Wildcats where former Rough Rider John Wayne got an oil lease simply because of where he served in the Spanish American War. Rough Riders could do no wrong in those years.For Roy's fans and other aficionados of the B western.

funkyfry This is a good "B" movie – it doesn't offer up any life-changing concepts and, no, it doesn't pretend to. This movie is all about showing Roy Rodgers as a man of action, a former "Rough Rider" under Teddy Roosevelt who, along with a group of fellow veterans, takes a job patrolling the Mexican-American border after the war ends. Given that set-up the film is slightly disappointing depending on your point of view, because other than a brief amusing scene where Roy gets in a fight with a man at a train station because the man said something disparaging about Roosevelt there's really nothing in this film relating to the fact that they are Rough Riders. And the only thing they round up is a bunch of kidnappers.This is a fairly early Rodgers film, so we don't see a lot of his usual co-stars. In place of Dale Evans, we have Mary Hart (aka Lynne Roberts) as the feisty daughter of a mine owner across the border. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out that the man she's engaged to is also a criminal who has had her kidnapped. Personally I felt she was a bit too civilized for the frontier. Instead of Gabby Hayes we have Raymond Hatton, who I've previously seen in "grizly-man" type roles but not such a comedic one. He does an OK job in this movie; like Hart basically sufficient but not special. I liked how he beat Roy back to the camp on his mule and how he shouts "Hi Ho Dinah!" when he spurs the mule on. We do seem to have the famous horse Trigger, or a horse that looks very much like him, though I didn't see his name on the credits. That's significant, folks, because a few years later Trigger was probably a lot more famous than most of the human actors who appeared in these films! I haven't seen as many of Rodgers' films as I have of Gene Autry's, but it seemed to me that this film was somewhat grittier and more plot-driven than his later films. I recently saw "Trigger Jr." and felt that it had better photography and music but a less compelling story than this one. There was only a little bit of singing in this one, but Roy did get to show off his yodeling ability.All in all it's not a very memorable film but there were some good stunts, decent songs, and I was not bored while watching it.

david Good oldtime B Western, with the greatest star of that genre in his early prime. Gold smugglers in Mexico, murder, capture, fist fights, gunfights - great Sat matinee at the Bijou stuff. And the reason why is, No Musical Numbers! I loved Roy's movies and TV and Radio shows; he was and is high on my list of Most Admired Men. A good man, and a humanitarian of the highest order. The Pearly Gates were a walkthru for him and Dale. But it woulda been better for everyone if Herbert J. Yates had never seen OKLAHOMA! on Broadway, cause his lamebrain notion to make all of Roy's movies from then on in that format - songs and more songs, then oh by the way, a story - compromised the genre severely, right when and where we didn't need it. Herb, baby, Roy's films were fine as is; don't mess with 'em. That's why this 55 minute gem gets 7 stars, outta 10.