Rogue of the Range

1936 film

April 25, 1936 (1936-04-25)

Running time

58 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Rogue of the Range is a 1936 American Western film directed by S. Roy Luby and starring Johnny Mack Brown, Lois January and in her only film, Phyllis Hume, Miss California 1936 and first runner-up for Miss America, where she used the name Phyllis Dobson.^[1] The picture is also known as Spider and the Fly in the United Kingdom.^[2]

Plot

Dan Doran robs a stagecoach before a gang of robbers does, then meets a woman driving a runaway wagon with her father dead in the back of it. Doran is caught and sent to prison for 20 years, but he breaks out with a fellow prisoner and joins a robbery gang in the same area where he came from.

Cast

Johnny Mack Brown as Dan Doran
Lois January as Stella Lamb
Stephen Chase as Lige Branscomb
Phyllis Hume as Tess
George Ball as Jim Mitchell
Jack Rockwell as Henchman Sloan
Horace Murphy as Sheriff Tom
Frank Ball as John (express agent)
Oscar Gahan as Stage guard

Notes

^ p. 49 Brooker, John The Happiest Trails Lulu.com 9 February 2017
^ p.384 Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies McFarland 30 July 2005