You won't be disappointed!

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

STOLEN GOODS is another early western for John Wayne. Like the others I've seen, it does the job ably enough and offers plenty of action in the form of stagecoach and horse chases, fist fights, and corruption to keep the viewer interested. Wayne does his square-jawed hero routine with ease and the film flies along with a short running time. This time around, our star is on the trail of a bandit gang and their job is to save and protect the local townsfolk. The supporting cast give mixed performances but this is harmless enough fun for the era.

Early John Wayne oater is pretty routine stuff for this point in his career. Duke plays an undercover marshal who teams up with cantankerous sheriff Gabby Hayes to stop a group of crooks whose leader is plotting to steal land from the townsfolk. You see, thar's gold in them thar hills. Eleanor Hunt plays Duke's love interest. Stuntman extraordinaire Yakima Canutt plays the Polka Dot Bandit. Gotta love that. As usual with a lot of these old westerns, the stunt work is first-rate. Duke and Gabby are fun. Early snicker-worthy scene in hotel run by George Cleveland has a newlywed groom telling Cleveland "I can't find it." What exactly he can't find is never explained. I'll leave it to you to figure out.

Almost all the Lone Star John Wayne movies have one or two quite unusual and memorable scenes. Here, it is the bizarre opening scene and the beautiful last shot. The opening is actually quite a mess. It takes place in a hotel room on a rainy night and it is hard to tell what is going on for most of the scene. There is also the only risqué double-entendre that I've seen in a Lone Star film when a newlywed husband comes back downstairs from his bridal suite and announces "I can't find it." The ending shot is Wayne riding off into the mountains with his girl and it is just lovely.The confusing and messy hotel sequence in the beginning is atoned for at the end with one of the best final chase sequences in the series. As mentions by other users, the stunt work is excellent and the scene of Wayne picking her his fallen lady from the ground while riding a team of galloping horses is still sweet, if not quite breath-taking.As the ten minute final chase scene is a big element in all the Lone Star Westerns, I would have to rate this highly, although the other 40 minutes does drag a bit.Edward Peil Sr. plays a great villain as he did in "Man from Utah". He was in some 375 films in his 40 year career.Yakima Canutt, as usual, is effective as a bad guy too. With a little luck, he would have been as big a star as Wayne.Not the best Lone Star, but it is effective.

What a wacky opening scene. The thunderstorm's got to be the loudest on record-- and why is Wayne sneaking into the hotel lobby. I guess he doesn't want to pay for a room. Then there are the newly-weds right out of the aw' shucks school of acting. And most curiously of all-- how did they get the groom's"I couldn't find it" snippet past the public watchdogs. This amounts to an astonishing innuendo, and no doubt one for the boys-- in the movie, that is. Probably there are more than a few audience 10-year old's still puzzling over that one. In all likelihood, it was someone's private joke that made it to the screen on a bet.Lone Star popped for some great location photography. The boys get to ride around the Alabama Hills with the scenic Southern Sierras in the background. The story doesn't make a lot of sense, but who cares, especially when the canyon explodes in a really great effect worthy of an A production. Also, some good crowd scenes of ordinary looking people. When they talk about getting forced off their homesteads, I expect more than a few folks in 1934 wished they had a Wayne on their side.As others point out, this looks like an early stage in the evolution of Hayes' unforgettable "Gabby" character. He's not called that, still the crusty old coot is definitely coming out. How delightful the Gabby-Wayne pairing proved over the years, especially in their masterpiece Tall in the Saddle. Wayne always seems genuinely amused by the ornery Gabby. Watch some of his reactions here. Those broad grins are not acting. Great final shot that still brings a tear to the eye.