Night Time in Nevada (1948)

So much average

Best movie ever!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Absolutely the worst movie.

Unfortunately, in stark contrast to the excellent work DVD companies have done for Gene Autry and Bill Boyd, Roy Rogers has been treated rather shabbily. Many of the titles on sale offer blurry, faded, out-of-focus pictures with garbled and/or muffled sound tracks. Even worse, the Trucolor entries are often presented in various shades of gray. An exception is "Night Time in Nevada" (1948) which Mill Creek present in a well-graded black-and-white copy. I'd rather watch Trucolor, but even in black-and-white, the movie provides a feast for railroad buffs, plus fans of Grant Withers who turns in one of his most charismatic portrayals ever. In fact, I think Sloan Nibley wrote his screenplay primarily with Withers in mind as the villain, and then added Roy, Andy Devine and the super-wonderful George Carleton who plays the crooked lawyer.

One of the nastiest villains that Roy Rogers ever tangled with was played by Grant Withers in Night Time In Nevada. He kills three of his partners during the course of this film.The first one was his partner in a mine played by Jim Nolan and told to another partner in flashback. George M. Carleton is your basic shyster attorney and they plot to do Nolan's now grown daughter Adele Mara out of a trust fund that Nolan set up for her and which lawyer Carleton has been bilking over the years.Another murder, that of beloved train engineer Joseph Crehan, brings Roy Rogers, Andy Devine and the Sons Of The Pioneers into the mix. With Mara and girlfriend Elaine Edwards now arrived the bad guys are of course brought to justice.Other than the classic Big Rock Candy Mountain there are no really good songs in this Roy Rogers film. But that's made up for in the action which comes fast and furious. The climax is well staged with Roy holding off the bad guys on a moving train.Roy's Saturday matinée kid crowd definitely loved this one.

56 abbreviated--songs removed Andy Devine Adele Mara modern starts off with odd prologue--to whom was he talking?! plan on cheating lady out of $50000 Farrell (Grant Withers)"Night Time in Nevada" is slightly better than average Roy Rogers film. It's worth seeing if you are a fan but that's really about all. However, my review should be taken with a grain of salt--I only saw an abbreviated version. That's because in the 1950s, many of his movies were cut down to fit into a TV time slot and in this case, the film was 56 minutes, not the original 67 minutes. I assume the big difference is that they cut out nearly all the songs to make this shorter version. And, in this case, this isn't so bad, as it made the film a bit tighter and smoother. The film also has a bonus because it does not co-star Dale Evans. I say this because too often Dale played a kooky and annoying character. Here, Adele Mara plays a more believable sort of woman--not some annoying idiot*.The film starts off very oddly. You hear Farrell narrating as it shows him murdering his long-time partner. You also learn that his partner had a daughter and she is entitled to his small fortune--something Farrell isn't about to allow since he is evil. When she (Mara) does arrive, Farrell connives with his lawyer friend to delay her. He also is the same evil galoot who stole Roy's cattle. Can Roy and Gabby get to the bottom of this? What do you think?!All in all, a decent sort of western that is mindless escapism. Enjoyable but undemanding.*While Rogers and Dale Evans were married in real life, I was always surprised at the ditsy roles Evans always received. After all, in the dozens of Roy and Dale films I've seen, I cannot recall one where she is level-headed and normal! Try watching a few yourself--you'll see what I mean.

Very odd, it seems like every reviewer on this board so far saw a different version of the film. My copy stated the picture in color at sixty seven minutes, but it was somewhat shorter and in black and white. The only song, if you can call it that, was a brief one liner with engineer Casey (Joseph Crehan) joining Roy and The Pioneers 'for old times sake'.Speaking of Casey, watch the scene closely where one of the bad guys shoots him while running the train. Did that bullet do a U-turn in mid air? Another example of the impossible logistics these old time Westerns often relied on. But I'm not complaining.Once the story gets underway, State Police captain Cookie Bullfincher swears in Roy as a deputy to solve a couple of crimes involving Roy's stolen cattle and a missing trust fund due Joan Andrews (Adele Mara), who's father was murdered twenty years earlier.You know what's spooky? I watched another flick just last night where a woman turning twenty one the very next day arrives on the scene to claim her inheritance. Her father also died in a mine cave-in twenty years ago. The picture was "Topper Returns" from 1941. What are the odds? Anyway, back to Nevada. Except for the early scene where Joan and her friend Toni Borden (Marie Harmon) take the stowaway cowboys on a joyride through the desert, the picture is played fairly straight with Andy Devine's character. He often plays a comedic sidekick to Roy, but here he was a pretty no-nonsense lawman. Still, when Cookie and Roy emerge from their jostling camper ride, they both have to clean up their flour-do.What's never in question with one of Roy's pictures, the bad guys lose in the end. But you know, I have to question Roy's common sense sometimes, like boarding Farrell's (Grant Withers) down hill, runaway cattle truck and duking it out with him with nothing but mountain on one side and air on the other. Not the kind of chance I'd bet the ranch on, even if I were King of the Cowboys.Say, does anyone know what happened to Toni?