Blue Steel (1934)
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Undercover marshal John Carruthers draws local suspicion while tracking the masked Polka Dot Bandit terrorizing a small town, uncovering a wealthy rancher's scheme to drive homesteaders off land that is hiding a fortune in gold.
Between its masked bandit, its secret gold vein, and its scheming land baron, Blue Steel recycles nearly every trope Monogram’s Lone Star westerns leaned on — and its long public-domain afterlife, chopped up and recut for decades of cut-rate television packages and bargain-bin tapes, has left the film almost as battered as its plot is familiar.
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