Rocky Mountain Mystery

Rocky Mountain Mystery is a 1935 American Western mystery film directed by Charles Barton and starring Randolph Scott, Mrs. Leslie Carter, and Ann Sheridan. Based on an unpublished novel Golden Dreams by Zane Grey, the film is about a mining engineer who teams up with a crusty deputy sheriff to solve a series of mystery killings at an old radium mine where the owners family waits for his death for their inheritance. The film was rereleased under the title The Fighting Westerner.

Shortly after Sutton arrives, Ballards nephew Fritz is murdered by a mysterious cloaked figure in the same manner that Adolph was killedcrushed beneath the massive weight of a stamp mill, a huge apparatus used to pulverize rock to unearth valuable ore. Sutton and Tex find that the ranch guests all have alibis. Soon the mysterious cloaked figure strikes again, shooting young John, attacking Sutton, and slashing Floras throat. While the investigation continues, Jim, who is apparently an invalid, takes a turn for the worse, prompting Sutton to contact his exwife who hasnt been to the ranch in thirty years.Mrs. Ballard arrives at the ranch, Mrs. Borg tries to prevent her from seeing her ailing exhusband. Sutton arrives and helps her upstairs where she discover that Jim is actually Adolph Borg, and that he and his wife had killed the real Jim Ballard sometime earlier during a takeover attempt by the Borg family. Adolph then tricks Sutton and escapes, taking Rita as a hostage. Sutton follows them to the mine where he fights with Adolph and John, nearly being crushed by the stamp mill. After Adolph falls to his death, Sutton rescues Rita. Afterwards, Mrs. Borg, her son John, and their Chinese servant Ling Yat are sentenced to twenty years in prison, and Tex is made sheriff. Larry and Rita get married and buy a ranch in Hawaii. ........

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