Dynamite Canyon (1941) | Full Movie | Tom Keene | Sugar Dawn | Slim Andrews

Dynamite Canyon (1941) Full Movie starring Tom Keene, Sugar Dawn & Slim Andrews.

Duke Rand, leader of a gang of desperadoes, has murdered rancher John Reed, and Arizona Ranger Colonel Blake, the only two men other than himself that knows there are large deposits of copper on the Reed ranch. He knows the blame will be placed on the cattle-vs-sheep range war. Tom Evans, posing as a wanted outlaw, Ed 'Trigger" Jones, works his way into Rand's confidence. The latter sends "Trigger" to make trouble for Midge Reed, the murdered man's daughter. Tom, as "Trigger" devises a plan to trap Rand but it backfires and he soon finds himself between two fires.

Not much is known about the early life of ruggedly handsome cowboy actor Tom Keene, born George Duryea in Rochester, New York. However, he arrived in Hollywood in the late 1920s after college studies at Columbia and Carnegie Tech and immediately made some impact as the lead of The Godless Girl (1928). Known for his sharp, pleasant looks and fitness, he was given the new name of Tom Keene and began appearing in a series of RKO "Poverty Row" Westerns in the early 1930s. Unlike other sagebrush stars of the time, such as Lash La Rue or William Boyd ("Hopalong Cassidy"), Tom's heroes took on different names and appearances -- wearing both black and white western outfits and hats -- and his characters were not two-fisted men by nature. As a result, he remained a second-string, less identifiable Western star for the duration of his career.