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Red Ryder (Allan Lane) convinces a treck of homesteaders to settle in Paradise Valley, simply because the land is affordable. And while water supply's not a given, with some smart dam building there shouldn't be much of an issue, either. Pretty much everything's happy with this, only Bill Hume (Gene Roth) tries to question Red's authority at every opportunity. At first the community thrives until someone sabotages the dam, someone starts stealing water, and other acts of sabotage happen as well. Now the audience knows of course all this to be the doings of Bill Hume and his brother Rufe (Mauritz Hugo), Red suspects them as well but lacks proof. Enter Mr. Langley (Emmett Vogan), a businessman from the next town over, Central City, who offers for his company to build a new, better dam, in exchange for 50% of the homesteaders land, but in exchange they'll all become stockholders. Red warns about this deal but his outvoted. And anyways, he soon gets a job in Central City as a columnist for the local newspaper where he's dubbed the "Cowboy Philosopher". Now the newspaper's run by A.C. Blaine (Milton Kibbee), who's also the man behind Langley's deal with the homesteaders, and he cleverly uses Red for his propaganda. And then he, in league with Langley and the Humes, tricks the homesteaders out of their water. But Bill Hume isn't an idiot, knowing that helping Blaine will put him at odds with the homesteaders, he knocks out Blaine, steals his money and enough evidence to put him to jail, then tries to skip Paradise Valley, but is stopped by a posse after him, and ultimately by Red, who makes sure Hume and Blaine get their just desserts and the homesteaders get their water back.

Robert Blake once again plays Red's junior sidekick Little Beaver, but has very little impact on the story as a whole.

A pretty routine B-western that might go a little above the casual viewers' heads with its rather complex scheme of landgrabbing, but it's fair to say that most of the audience come for the chases, shoot-outs and fights rather than an economically plausible story, and of your typical western action, Homesteaders of Paradise Valley has plenty. That said, the film also has very little to really stick with one and is probably forgotten in a few days at the most - but at least it's fun while it lasts.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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