Guns of Hate

Guns Of Hate finds Tim Holt and Richard Martin riding along minding their own business when they stop to offer a helping hand to Jason Robards, Sr. who has lost a wheel on his buckboard. Watching Robards trying to lift the wagon to get his wheel back on by himself made me wonder would the jack have to be invented after the automobile necessarily?

Anyway he tells them about finding the fabled Lost Dutchman gold mine and gives them a nugget for their troubles saying there was plenty more where that came from. When Tim and Richard cash the nugget in for folding money, the assayer Tony Barrett gets real greedy and tells the crooked saloon owner Steve Brodie who then murders poor Robards. As per usual in a theme that runs through Tim Holt westerns, he and his sidekick get blamed and spend the rest of the film trying to prove their innocence.

Tim's got a double reason as well since he also meets Robards niece Nan Leslie. And of course Richard Martin as the amorous Chito Jose Gonzalez Bustamante Rafferty has Myrna Dell, a saloon girl with a heart of gold who draws a line at her employer Brodie committing murder and robbery. Marriage is not on the horizon as Dell finds out sadly.

Guns Of Hate goes down as one of the lesser Holt efforts for RKO.