Empty Saddles

Director: Lesley Selander
Year Released: 1936
Rating: 0.5

Cowboy Buck Devlin (Buck Jones) buys up a vacant lot of land and converts it into a dude ranch, but local "sheep men" and other marauders have a problem with this - the later group want to not only blow it up with dynamite but kidnap the daughter of a rich man.  There isn't much to say about what's basically a D-grade Western: the acting and dialogue are both awful and the direction is barely competent, so get ready for some laughable "chase sequences" (audiences in the late thirties must have loved horses and trains).  All that being said, it is historically notable for one reason only: it's one of the last films screen legend Louise Brooks (as "Boots" Boone) ever appeared in ... and even rarer still, it's a talkie.  For the record, her voice was just fine - she just pissed off the wrong people.