'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)
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Chris Morrell shields an orphaned girl whose oil-rich land makes her a target for outlaw Sam Black, discovering her long-lost father among the ranch hands sheltering them before a showdown beneath a waterfall settles the matter.
Its plot turns on the kind of premise only a Depression-era audience would take in stride — an orphaned child sitting on an oil fortune — but ‘Neath the Arizona Skies is chiefly remembered today as one of several Lone Star quickies where Yakima Canutt swapped his stuntman’s rigging for a speaking role as the heavy.
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