The Star Packer

The Star Packer is a 1934 Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury and starring John Wayne, George "Gabby" Hayes, Yakima Canutt, and Verna Hillie.

The Star Packer
Film poster
Directed byRobert N. Bradbury
Produced byPaul Malvern[1]
Starring
Color processblack & white (later colorized)
Distributed byMonogram Pictures
Release date
  • July 30, 1934 (1934-07-30)
Running time
52-54 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

U.S. Marshal John Travers (John Wayne) becomes the sheriff of a turn-of-the-century western town where several murders have occurred, hoping to flush out an outlaw known only as "The Shadow". He is aided by an Indian friend he asks to come help him. Anita Matlock, daughter of deceased, and niece of current Matlock ranch owner, arrives from the East at the same time.

After watching a stage holdup, Travers and Indian friend discretely follow the robbers back to the town, where the robbers are heard conversing with someone in what seems to be an empty room at the saloon, and later follow them to a hideout close to the Matlock ranch. In town, the "empty" room is found to have secret passages including a secret way to shoot people on the main street of town.

Out at Matlock ranch, Travers gives Anita a gun, and someone telephones at the ranch telephones the robber's hideout to set up a road ambush on Travers and a fake attack on Anita to cause her to go back East. But she foils the plan with the gun given to her.

After arresting the suspected robbers, Travers makes one of them go back to the special room for instructions, where Travers hears of a plot to murder most of the town with a machine gun coming from the hideout on a wagon, and to murder him from the secret outlook onto the street.

But he deputizes the townsfolk and they intercept the machine gun before it gets to town, and he shows them the secret outlook before it can be used to murder again.

Later, he marries Anita and his Indian friend plays Indians with their young son.

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See also

References
  1. "Paul Malvern". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on August 4, 2019.
  2. "The Star Packer (1934)", film profile and print specifications, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Atlanta, Georgia. Warner Bros. Entertainment. Retrieved September 18, 2019.


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