"Gun Law"
Movie Review

Reviewed by: Ed G. Lousararian

1938: Directed by David Howard; B/W.  George O'Brien, Rita Oehmen, Frank O'Connor, Ray Whitley, Paul Everton, Ward Bond, Edward Pawley, Francis McDonald, James Mason, Hank Bell, Neal Burns, Ken Card, Paul Fix, Robert Burns, Ethan Laidlaw, Ray Jones.

   This is a fine Western offering starring one of the best action hero cowboys of the silver screen, George O'Brien.  The ever-athletic, durable star minus a stuntman (and he liked it that way) does a bang-up job as a federal marshal who is bushwhacked on his way to the town of Gunsight where he will join forces with a "man of the cloth".  Together, lawman O'Brien and minister O'Connor plan to administer justice and religion to a town lacking both, while uncovering a troupe of reprehensible cutthroats.

    Look for The Rifleman's Paul Fix and Wagon Train's Ward Bond.  On an interesting note, the film's lovely female lead, Rita Oehmen, years later produced a daughter --- beautiful and talented Charmian Carr --- who played 16-year old Liesl in The Sound of Music.