Chip of the Flying U (1939)
LIKE A BOMBSHELL OF FURY....they smash the munitions smugglers!
55 min
Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett, foreman of the Flying U ranch. Before the second reel has tumbled over the spools, Chip finds himself falsely accused of robbery and murder. The actual miscreants are in the employ of a band of foreign gunrunners, who speak in heavily Teutonic accents. Rest assured that Chip makes short work of these bush-league Storm Troopers before the sun sets in the West. Musical interludes are provided by a group calling themselves the Texas Rangers, even though they actually hailed from Kansas City.
- Release date
- January 24, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Johnny Mack Brown as 'Chip' Bennett
- Bob Baker as 'Dusty'
- Fuzzy Knight as 'Weary'
- Doris Weston as Margaret Whitmore
- Forrest Taylor as J.G. Whitmore
- Anthony Warde as Ed Duncan
- Karl Hackett as Hennessy
- Henry Hall as Banker Wilson
- Claire Whitney as Miss Robinson
- Ferris Taylor as Sheriff
Crew
- Ralph Staub · Director
- Larry Rhine · Writer
- Andrew Bennison · Writer
- Bertha Muzzy Sinclair · Writer
- William A. Sickner · Cinematographer
- Louis Sackin · Editor