Son of the Renegade (1953)

Son of the Renegade was the first of a short series of westerns produced and written by John Carpenter who also starred in it. John Carpenter made one more of these low-budgeters before he began billing himself as John Forbes. From the 1940s and until he was evicted in 1994 to make room for a housing project, Carpenter ran the "Heaven on Earth" ranch for handicapped children in Glendale. Tough-looking Jack Ingram began his long show business career as a minstrel player and later reportedly toured with Mae West. He began turning up playing scruffy henchmen and assorted other B-Western villains in the mid-'30s and was later the featured heavy in Columbia serials. Ingram would go on to appear in a total of 200 Westerns and approximately 50 serials in a career that later included appearances on such television programs as The Cisco Kid and The Lone Ranger. Product Description

Great John Carpenter Western

This is one of several decent westerns John Carpenter made in the 1940s and the best one of the bunch t hat I have seen. It has all the traditional western elements in it, from the saloon to the showdown to bank robberies but does them with more panache that you would normally expect from this well worn genre. I had a good time watching it and was impressed by the quality of the clip. July 24, 2006

Cowboy Film

I ended up watching this movie with my dad who remembered watching it on television w hen he was a child with his dad. Funny how that stuff works out, isn't it? The film is a fun traditional cowboy western involving rough men doing rough things and then the hero comming in to save the day. The guys are more attractive than in a lot of other westerns and the movie itself is short so it ends before you get tired of it. The sound quality was better than on many other films I've seen from the 1950s. May 24, 2006

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