Lost Canyon (1942) - Movie Review

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Lost Canyon (1942) was an entertaining Hopalong Cassidy film starring William Boyd, Andy Clyde, and Jay Kirby.
The film opens up with Johnny Travers, on the run with money. A group of guys are after him. It's a classic guy on a horse, on the run from a bigger group of guys on horses. Will he escape via a daring jump from a cliff into a raging river?
So we cut over to California (played by Andy Clyde), complaining about the cost of food at the local store. You know, he's not quite a Gabby Hayes-level of playing the awesome, grizzled old guy, but he's still fine here as the silly old comic relief. Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) shows up, and they talk about the news of Johnny Travers being accused of robbing a bank. Hoppy doesn't believe it, but wonders why he ran away?
Soon we are introduced to Jeff Burton, the mean mustached baddie played by Douglas Fowley, who is working in cahoots with the bank manager to steal money or something like that. And of course, right from the beginning we see that he and Hoppy don't get along. So you know he's a bad guy.
At the town dance that night, Hoppy and California meet in secret with Johnny, who has managed to survive, and who pleads his innocence.
Musical number with jangling spurs, spurs that jingle jangle, sung by the The Sportsman Quartet. The ladies at the dance all want to dance with old California, for some silly reason.
And as if that wasn't enough silliness, we then cut to a very silly scene of California making homemade biscuits, using ridiculous measurements and accidentally using plaster. It's all goofy fun.
Well, Jeff Burton the baddie sees his girlfriend Lara Clark (played by Lola Lane) riding with Hopalong and, bitterly jealous, they argue and call off their engagement. You know he really hates Hoppy now. Jeff meets with the bank guy. The two of them are planning on stealing the Clark farm (because in a Hoppy movie, one way or another, cattle theft must be a theme.)
Hoppy shows up soon after to question the bank guy. He suspects there's something fishy going on. So he goes and talks to the Clarks at their ranch, and finding out they recently lost their foreman he offers to take the job. Hoppy soon meets up with the sheriff (played by Hugh Prosser) and Hoppy reveals that Johnny has been hiding with him, but that he's innocent, and he draws out an arguement in his defence. (I mean, literally, draws in the dirt with a stick his defense of Johnny.) This scene was amusing in that, as Hoppy is talking, Johnny goes around losening the saddles so that Hoppy and crew can make a speedy escape (I love when the sheriff is just sitting there in the dirt and says, basically, "hmmm, I think that Hoppy was right...") Haha
Hoppy eventually gets to the bad guys cabin to face off against the evil attorney, with the sheriff and his men in pursuit. A big gun fight follows and, what happens, check this one out to see. There's some great stuff as Johnny and California try to send some massive bolders down a hill into the bad guys house becayse, wait, wasn't Hoppy in that house with the baddies?
And, wait a minute? When was there a lost canyon in the film?
Ah well, who cares, it was a lot of fun. Go check this one out.