Sagebrush Trail1933

It’s crazy how older movies like this are stripped down to the bare essentials and yet can still feel slow. So the plot is about a man on the run after being wrongly accused of a murder and hiding out with an outlaw gang, unknowingly becoming friends with the real killer. There is an interesting idea there, but due to the extreme barebones storytelling, the movie doesn’t really care about it. Or anything.  There are maybe one or two okay moments, and there is some action stuff, some horseback riding, and a shoot-out. And I’m sure it killed in 1933, but for me, it’s just kind of fell flat. If it really tried to be more of a thriller than a broad western, it could have been good, and maybe it was trying to do both, but it kind of did neither in any really interesting way.