Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

classicsoncall I would never have figured Randolph Scott and Ann Sheridan in a picture together, much less a Western. At least it's nominally a Western, with it's fair share of mystery elements as hero Larry Sutton (Scott) arrives on the scene as a mining engineer with a penchant for detective work.I saw this picture under the title "The Fighting Westerner", packaged as part of a two hundred fifty film Western collection by Mill Creek Entertainment. The surprise of the movie in retrospect was the actor Chic Sale portraying Deputy Sheriff Tex Murdock, who I would have sworn was in his Seventies, but a quick check of his bio revealed he was only fifty at the time he made this picture. He died the year after this film's release of pneumonia and something tells me he would have been a cool character to know personally.If you think about it, the way the villain dispatched his victims here was pretty gruesome. But I have to tell you, that hydraulic press made such a hideous noise I had to lower the volume every time it's power was engaged. At one point, our hero is knocked out and placed strategically under the press to become it's next victim, but if you're attentive, you'll see the 'unconscious' Randolph Scott move his left arm across his chest. Fortunately, he wakes up just in the nick of time to solve the murder mystery and hook up with Ann Sheridan by the end of the story. I did a double take when I saw them under those palm trees, but heck, that made as much sense as anything else in the story.

MartinHafer As you see in Fightingwesterner's review, this is one of those weird western B-movies in which you see all kinds of contemporary items yet the film is set in what seems like the old west! This was actually pretty common back in the 30s and 40s, as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and many of the other stars of the day made such anachronistic films. My favorite was an Autry film where you see Gene chasing baddies on his horse--and they were driving in a pickup truck! Oddly, audiences of the time loved the films and seemed to look past this weirdness. And, despite "Rocky Mountain Mystery" being another one of these strange films, it was enjoyable.The film begins with Randolph Scott arriving at the scene of a murder. It seems that a man has been assumed guilty and Scott knows this other man is not the culprit. Along with the goofy Deputy (Chic Sale--who is even more of a crusty old character than the great Gabby Hayes). Together the two work on uncovering the mystery--and it leads to a surprising discovery that it's not one person they are looking for but a group of them! The film is enjoyable--mostly due to Sale's enjoyable over-the-top performance. Yes, he chews the scenery but you can't help but like him. Aside from this, look for a younger and less glamorous Ann Sheridan--before Warner Brothers changed her appearance and style. Worth seeing--particularly if you like B-westerns or mysteries.

FightingWesterner Rocky Mountain Mystery exists in that parallel universe where the old west never really ended but continued on well into the nineteen-thirties and forties, usually inhabited by Gene Autry, Roy Rodgers, Tex Ritter, and sometimes even a very young John Wayne.The characters ride horses, use oil lamps to light their way, and seemingly live a frontier existence under territorial law, all with six-guns on their hips. The viewer either forgets or is unaware that this is supposed to take place in modern times when suddenly the cowboys encounter modern cars, telephones, radio, and electricity. I sometimes wonder if the depression era children who were the films' main audience actually believed the west was really like this.This is an above average B-western and a great example of what modern experts are calling "horror western" due to their odd plots and sadistic mystery villains. I prefer to call them mystery or suspense westerns.Rocky Mountain Mystery effectively mixes an Old Dark House plot with frontier themes. It's not as chilling as I'd like but it does have a creepy fiend dressed in black complete with gloves, hat, and cape; a killer that prefers to crush heads in a hydraulic press but isn't afraid to menace a pretty girl with a straight razor either! The ending is quite surprising and well plotted.

clark-9 This is definitely a "B" type western, but Randolph Scott does his normal star role as Randolph Scott. "Chic" Sale's performance as the "old timer" is very entertaining, the plot is decent, and everything moves along. Some interesting little add ins, like the two dogs. You can also see Ann Sheridan before she learned to act.All in all a little better than average for this era.