Ghost Guns (1944) Western, Johnny Mack Brown

This Johnny Mack Brown-Raymond Hatton Western takes its title from a trick employed by the doughty U. S. Marshals to make a killer confess his crimes by letting him think he killed a man and then parading the ghost of the supposed deceased in front of him. But that's a small item in the picture, which contrasts with most Westerns in that it puts the cast on horseback every minute or so and races it furiously from point to point instead of leaving it in one place. This may be due in part to the presence in the cast of Evelyn Finley, who not only rides well and much but also does tricks that few cowboys attempt in front of a camera. The script by Frank H. Young concerns a band of killers, rustlers and land-grabbers who are bent on taking possession of a fertile valley one way or another, but mostly by killing off the ranchers. They make considerable progress in that direction before the U. S. Marshals round up the leaders and restore calm to the community. Lambert Hillyer directed, presumably on horseback, and Charles J. Bigelow supervised.