Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

dougdoepke Complex Holt western with lots of hard riding and fast shooting, but no flying fists. Locations are mainly from familiar LA area scrublands. The plot's a layered one, involving several gangs and different degrees of bad-good guys. Holt starts out as bank robber stealing what he and brother Ankrum believe is their money defrauded from them by a bank. This leads to a series of encounters whose shifting details I leave to other reviewers.Though Lasses White supplies humorous episodes, there's not the lighter tone of the later Chito- Holt entries. It's a fine cast of baddies, including toughie Roy Barcroft in a suit no less, and commanding Morris Ankrum who later saves the universe in 50's sci-fi. But pity poor Janet Waldo of radio fame. When not standing around nicely dressed, she gets all of one close-up, at movie's end. Oh well, there was always Corliss Archer on the radio dial.All in all, having hero Holt undergo some value changes is unusual for an oater, and is the hour's main point of interest. (And see if you agree, Holt looks like a young Roy Rogers here.) Anyway, it's a well-cast and acted western if a somewhat complicated plot.

jacobs-greenwood Tim Holt stars in this "B" Western, haunted by his usual (and unfunny, IMO) silly sidekick Whopper, played by Lee 'Lasses' White.The film opens with a shootout between the law and Red Haggerty (Morris Ankrum) and others from his brother's ranch that's being repossessed by the bank. Resigned to his fate, the brother (Eddy Waller) shows up in time to stop the fight, but is shot in the process. Before he dies, he makes Red promise that when his son Steve arrives the next day, that he'll not lead him astray. But, when Steve (Tim Holt) gets off the stagecoach, Red bullies him into robbing the bank (with him) of $20,000, the value of the cattle his uncle insisted was their's "free and clear".They allude their lawful pursuers, but run into an old prison buddy of Red's named Idaho (Glenn Strange, from The Bandit Ranger (1942)) and decide to join forces. Steve is assigned to take the money into Remington, another town, deposit it, and establish "a set of eyes on the inside" that will allow them to know the best time to rob its bank. Whopper goes along with him to get food for the boys. In the bank, Steve meets Ellen (Janet Waldo), the beautiful teller & daughter of the bank's owner, and is infatuated. Later, he meets Joel Nesbitt (Roy Barcroft), the crooked owner of the saloon/gambling house in town. That evening, he attends a party at Ellen's where they get to dance. Upon returning to the hideout, Steve reluctantly agrees to go along with robbing the bank as long as no one inside is hurt.When the gang goes into town to carry out their deed, they see that a bank robbery is already in progress and they chase the bandits to their hideout, where another shootout begins. Before the Law's posse arrives, Steve makes Red, Idaho, and the others (as yet unknown to the town folk) leave. Whopper stays and takes credit for the situation. Steve and the Marshall sneak up on the building and, though both are shot, finish off the bandits. After two weeks of recovery at Ellen's house, Steve is promoted to Marshall with Whopper as his deputy. Now that Steve is the law, can he clean up Remington, ridding it of varmints like Nesbitt, stave off his uncle Red's gang, and clear his ledger in the town he earlier robbed? What do you think;-)

Panamint If you are a western fan, be sure to see this one. It has a good story, is well-directed at a good pace. At this point in his career, Tim Holt had charisma and was a perfect choice for western movies. He is into what he is doing here and doesn't appear to approach this as just another formula production to be cranked out (sometimes later in his career he approached his endless series of western roles in a formula manner).Roy Barcroft is fine of course as a rotten businessman. Versatile movie veteran Morris Ankrum is excellent as Holt's uncle "Red", who keeps applying the tension to an underlying storyline throughout the entire movie. In fact the whole movie is better written and more layered than you might expect for an ordinary B western of this era.Perfect casting of female lead, sidekick, the Sheriffs, and all characters contribute to this watchable, solidly made yarn.

Michael Morrison From a story by Arthur T. Horman, the screenplay by Norton S. Parker gives us, without being blatant or obvious, an unusual opening that summarizes the reason for the upcoming action.A rancher's brother is battling the sheriff who is coming to foreclose (shades of today's economy!) but the rancher himself puts a stop to the shooting. His son, played by Tim Holt, is returning home and the rancher wants peace for his arrival.The brother-uncle is played by Morris Ankrum, more often, too often, relegated to being a with but here in a pivotal role that showed he should have been given more bigger parts.His partner in the shooting is "Whopper," a name over-used in Tim Holt westerns, and here played by Lee "Lasses" White, a very capable actor but given some pretty lousy lines. As is also unfortunately common in Tim Holt westerns, the "humor" isn't funny.However, the story is a good one, and, with the great Roy Barcroft and the great Glenn Strange, it is well presented, and thus overall "The Bandit Trail" is worth watching.