CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

bkoganbing This the third of the Hopalong Cassidy series finds Hoppy going to the aid fellow rancher Howard Lang. But he's got to catch up with Jimmy Ellison who has a big head start. Ellison's likes Jean Rouverol the rancher's daughter, but she's getting a whirlwind courtship from an elegant English dude Henry Worth who is secretly behind all the rustling going on.Worth proves to be one of the more interesting villains in the whole Cassidy series. He's got some rather high falutin' ideas on good living out in the west and surprisingly for an Englishman he admires Napoleon Bonaparte. His men are even exasperated with his ideas, but he is making them money. That covers a multitude of sins.I swear Hoppy ought to keep Ellison on a leash with a muzzle. That young man is more headstrong and keeps getting into jackpots in every Cassidy film. The guys have more than one reason to leave the Bar 20 to help a friend. Buck Peters's sister Ethel Wales is in for a visit and she has all the cowhands doing her interior and exterior decorating. Facing outlaws is better than living with her and her tasks.Watch and see what I mean.

chipe I wish I could have rated this movie higher. I like westerns in general, the half-hour Hoppy TV shows are OK, the first Hoppy movie (Hopalong Cassidy Enters) was fine.This one, though, seemed cheesy, almost juvenile. The scenery was good, and the bad guy, whatever his over the top faults, was certainly interesting and different.I'll give just some examples of the silly inferior quality of it: (1) Hoppy is going undercover as a card shark in order to join the bad guys' gang. When asked what he was doing at their hideout, he says he is after the James Ellison character (a friend of Hoppy), whom Hoppy lies that he wants to kill. The leader of the bad guys also wants Ellison killed, so they travel to a place where Hoppy is given a rifle to shoot Ellison, who is hundreds of yards away. So from that distance Hoppy makes a miraculous shot, just grazing Ellison's head, making him temporarily unconscious. (2) The scene with Buck's sister visiting was unfunny and completely unnecessary. (3) I always hate it when the good guy sets a fire to suit his purposes. Here Hoppy left a magnifying glass in the sun near some brush, that eventually ignites the fire, yet the bad guys can't reach it in time before it signals the good guys. Scenes like these make you cringe.

FilmartDD So often cast as a dour villain or stern-faced sheriff in his sound era westerns, J.P.McGowan here brings genial and knowing good humor to the role of foreman Buck Peters. He shows an easy authority among the ranch hands, then goes into ironic self-effacement when the dragon sister arrives. In his mid-fifties and getting heavy in build, with more than one hundred and eighty roles behind him (and that counts all his appearances in The Hazards of Helen as just one!), JP takes readily to the humorous business at the ranch which counters the serious purpose of Hoppy's mission as the film develops. Not a big role, but one that the Mulford fans would have insisted on being done to rights. As a much experienced producer of inexpensive but popular light dramas himself, JP may have enjoyed working for the veteran producer Harry Sherman. He would have enjoyed, too, the adroit and vigorous direction of the sole sequence in which he appears, set in front of the bunkhouse. All in all, the audience sees a different and happy side of J.P.McGowan, Hollywood's first Australian.

alexandre michel liberman (tmwest) Cassidy's short films were shown at boy's birthday parties in Brazil in the early fifties. That was before TV . When he came out on TV a couple of years later in the U.S.A. there was a lot of expectation because all newspapers were writing about what a fortune he made by this deal. Unfortunately there was very little you could do in half an hour. More than fifty years have gone by since I was so deceived by that TV episode that I never saw any Cassidy film again. Seeing "Bar 20 rides Again" made me realize how his films were above average "B westerns. There was none of that "Roy and Gene" stuff. Cassidy was 40 years old and this was his third film as Hop- A-Long as he is shown in the final credits. The film has a comic start as an elderly woman arrives to the Bar 20 bossing the cowboys who try to avoid her orders without being indelicate. The bad guy is called Pardue and models himself after Napoleon, giving orders with a chess game on his desk. Hoppie acts like one of the rustlers and even shoots his pal Johnny Nelson to prove he is one of them . The great final scenes show all the cowboys of the Bar 20 riding together in a gigantic showdown with the rustlers. "Bar 20 Rides Again" is not a sequel. Hoppy made a film named "Bar 20" much later in 1943.