Orphan of the Pecos
Orphan of the Pecos is a 1937 American Western film produced and directed by Sam Katzman and starring Tom Tyler, Jeanne Martel, Howard Bryant, and Forrest Taylor. Written by Basil Dickey, the film is about a cowboy who is falsely accused of murdering a rancher whose body he discovers. Before the sheriff arrives, he escapes and tries to find evidence to clear his name and help the ranchers daughter save her ranch. The film was released in the United States on December 30, 1937 by Victor Pictures.
Meanwhile, cowboy Tom Rayburn Tom Tyler, a stranger to the area looking for work, encounters a medicine salesman and ventriloquist, Jeremiah Mathews Theodore Lorch, on the road outside of town. While Tom is amused by the salesmans talents, he declines to purchase any of his medicine and continues on to the Gelbert ranch, where he discovers Gelberts body. When Ann and Brand arrive at the ranch, Ann finds Tom leaning over the body and assumes that he murdered her father. While pretending to search Tom, Brand plants the stolen money in his pocket and announces what he found. He then encourages Ann to shoot him, but she chooses to let the law handle it.While they wait for the sheriff to arrive, Tom and Brand get into a fight and Brand is knocked unconscious. As Tom prepares to leave, Ann picks up Toms gun and threatens to shoot him, but he knows she will not do it. He takes his gun, tells her he will return to her to explain, and then leaves. Later that night as promised, Tom returns to the ranch and shows Ann the letter he received from her father offering him the foremans job. He also points out that Brand had much more to gain from her fathers death than he did. Ann believes him and gives him her fathers coat. ........
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