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80% Critic Match
Canyon Raiders
“Whip stalks wild horse plunderers to the gun-swept stronghold!”
8.0 / 10• 1951• 54m•NR• English
Western
Storyline
Whip Wilson only gets to crack his trademark weapon once in this economic Western filmed in toto at the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, CA. A government agent, Wilson arrives in the near ghost town of Tunis, where his friend is in trouble with a couple of horse thieves. The latter are also terrorizing a homesteader, Texas Milburn, and his wife, Ruth, and when the female sheriff Alice Long interferes, she finds herself taken hostage.
Cast & Crew
Whip Wilson
Whip Wilson
Lead
Fuzzy Knight
Texas Milburn
Jim Bannon
Jim Bannon
Phyllis Coates
Alice Long
I. Stanford Jolley
Sam Wellman
Barbara Woodell
Ruth Milburn
Marshall Reed
Jack Marlin
Riley Hill
Lou Banks
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Lewis D. Collins's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Canyon Raiders is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
