California Joe

⭐ Featured Review

"Don 'Red' Barry was a college football player who spent a long life as a B Western Star, mostly for Republic Pictures, which specialized in turning out just this sort of picture, in between its vehicles for singing cowboys Gene Autrey and Roy Rogers. When their biggest straight western star, John Wayne, moved on to greener pastures, Barry became their go-to star, and they produced well-written, inexpensive vehicles like this. In the one, Barry plays a spy for the north during the Civil War, sent to California to prevent California from joining the Confederacy under the malign influe..."