Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Leofwine_draca THE STAR PACKER is a simple and fast-paced B-movie western for rising star John Wayne. The story is a familiar one about an outlaw gang terrorising a small town, at which point Wayne decides to take up the mantle of sheriff and do something to stop them. There are low rent action scenes, a little romantic time for the ladies, and the usual genre tropes and staples. Hardly profound, but it does the job.

hdavis-29 It's kind of amusing that here we are, 3/4 century after this throw-away B-western was filmed, not only sitting through it, but writing serious, heartfelt reviews. I'm sure the folks at Lone Star would have been amused. So a couple of quick reactions: I'm kind of surprised to read that some of us think this is perhaps the best of Wayne's '30s westerns. I hope that's not true. I have seen two Mascot serials and found them both quite a bit better than this - esp The Hurricane Express. Like reviewer Dan Phillips, I couldn't make sense out of the beginning either. I read it the same way Dan did and came away wondering what I had missed. I guess 12 year olds in 1934 had a sharper eye than either of us. I love it when characters are given the actor's name. Yak is the most obvious one here, but not the only one. Just how typical was that? As some of you pointed out, the movie's name had no bearing on the plot. Truth is, it's just a great name with no utility beyond that. That hardly makes it unique. Think about Republic serials. Remember Zombies of the Stratosphere? Not a zombie to be seen. Just a killer title. It's pretty well established that the guys who named these things were not necessarily the ones who wrote them. I, too, love the ending. We go from a chaste "relationship" (if it was that) between Wayne and the actress to marriage and parenting! Another vote for immaculate conception. Then again, it meant the 12 year olds didn't have to sit through any of that mushy stuff. Ugh! Available in a Wayne collection (including the serials) and a Western collection from Millcreek Ent.

FightingWesterner When the sheriff is shot dead by a gang of bandits he had sworn to eliminate, John Wayne pins the badge on and picks up where his predecessor left off.Though the Star Packer isn't as well paced as some of the other films Wayne made as a contract star for Lone Star/Monogram Pictures, there's a pretty thrilling chase climax worth waiting around for, featuring some good scenery and stunt work.There's also an interesting role reversal with George "Gabby" Hayes playing the president of the cattlemen's association, living a double life as "The Shadow", leader of the outlaw gang and the usually villainous Yakima Canutt playing the role of Wayne's Tonto-esquire Indian sidekick.

bkoganbing Sad to say this is one of the sillier of John Wayne's series of poverty row westerns for Lone Star Productions. Here he is a United States Marshal on the trail of a bandit known only, I kid you not, as the Shadow.No it's not Lamont Cranston, it's some dude who gives his orders through an open wall safe so his men don't see who he is. But the voice is unmistakable, you'll know within 10 minutes of the film. And another reviewer here is quite wrong, no squeals or groans from the audience would have occurred because Gabby Hayes was still playing a variety of roles and he's clean shaven here. He had not yet found his niche as the lovable oldtimer sidekick of various movie cowboy heroes like the Duke.Later on he does lead his men quite openly in the climax so I'm not sure what the point of the original gimmick with the wall safe was. I don't think those that wrote this one knew either.Wayne gets Yakima Canutt as an Indian sidekick here and the relationship is just about the same as an unmasked Lone Ranger and Tonto.It's all pretty silly if you ask me.