Gun Brothers * (1956, Buster Crabbe, Neville Brand, Ann Robinson, Michael Ansara, Walter Sande, Lita Milan, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 11,619

Buster Crabbe returns to the screen for his first feature film in six years in director Sidney Salkow’s all-too-modest low-budget 1956 black and white Western film Gun Brothers.

After six years in the US Cavalry, Chad Santee (Buster Crabbe) heads west to join his brother Jubal (Neville Brand) to raise cattle, but Jubal and his partner Shawnee (Michael Ansara) are really rustlers and outlaws.

Nevertheless, humble and uninspired though the film is, Crabbe and Brand are useful presences as the rival brothers.

The film is made by Grand Productions, owned by Edward Small, who also produced the 1961 remake Gun Fight. It is released by United Artists.

The cast are Buster Crabbe as Chad Santee, Ann Robinson as Rose Fargo Santee, Neville Brand as Jubal Santee, Michael Ansara as Shawnee Jack, Walter Sande as Yellowstone Kelly, Lita Milan as Meeteetse and Slim Pickens as Moose MacLain.

Clarence Linden Crabbe II (February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983).

But then Buster Crabbe was the king of the film serials: Tarzan the Fearless (1933) as Tarzan, Flash Gordon (1936) as Flash Gordon. Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (1938) as Flash Gordon, Red Barry (1938) as Red Barry, Buck Rogers (1939) as Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940) as Flash Gordon, Last of the Redmen (1947) as Magua, The Sea Hound (1947) as Captain Silver, Pirates of the High Seas (1950) as Jeff Drake and King of the Congo (1952) as Captain Roger Drum and Thun’da.

Crabbe never stopped acting, mostly in Westerns such as Gunfighters of Abilene (1960), Arizona Raiders (1965), The Bounty Killer (1965), Alien Dead (1980) and The Comeback Trail (1982).

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