That was an excellent one.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

This was my first look at Rex Bell, and I wish I could say it was a more auspicious introduction. His character Breezy Kildare is a New York City cop working out of the DA's office, who winds up getting shot when Butch Owen's (Robert Ellis) gang opens up on Louie Walsh at the Back Door Night Club. When it's all over, Breezy decides it's the right time to head out West to his Dad's ranch for a while for a little R and R.It's always amazing to me how the law of averages is constantly challenged in these old films of the Thirties and Forties. Wouldn't you know it, but when Breezy arrives in town, he finds the Independent Cattle Breeders Protective and Benevolent Association headed up by who else - Butch Owen! Clear across the country and they both wind up in the same place. This happened all the time in these era flicks, but I guess film goers of the time were still too fascinated with talking pictures to worry much about things like plot and story line.Still, this picture has some fairly novel elements, chief among them the pairing of two different film genres - gangsters and Westerns. There was also the presence of the modern world encroaching on the Old West, with the bad guys tooling around in a motor car for their choice of transportation. In terms of movie trivia, I'd have to say that this is probably the only movie you'll ever see where a henchman uses a machine gun to mow down the cattle of a rancher who refused their so called 'protection'. Not to worry, the cattle were off screen and there were no bodies, but just the idea of it was kind of eerie.In keeping with the machine gun theme, Rex Bell had a novel idea when he climbed up a boulder and used a lasso to rope one out of the hands of the shooter when the eventual showdown occurred between the good guys and the bad guys. This could never happen for real, but I refer you to my earlier comment.George Hayes appears in this one in pre-Gabby mode, and it was unusual to see him with a handlebar moustache instead of his more familiar whiskers. His role isn't much, but he does have a stand-out moment when he shoots the hats off of four henchmen at Joe Carter's Soft Drink Emporium and Pool Hall.Probably the oddest thing to occur in the picture (besides the early scene where the local ranchers stripped Breezy out of his back East duds and threw some cowboy gear on him), was the way villain Owen closed out the picture. Taken into custody following the shoot-out and hustled off by the cowboys, Owen kills himself with his own pistol! Chalk up another unusual event in a Western I've never seen before.

Detective Rex Bell is shot by gangsters in a New York nightclub. Coming home to his father's Wyoming ranch in order to recuperate, he trades his city-slicker outfit for a cowboy hat and jeans. Rex soon finds the gang that shot him, trying to muscle there way into new territory by selling "protection" to the local cattlemen.A fun little cowboys-versus-gangsters picture, this combines two of the nineteen-thirties most endearing B-movie genres into a neat little package. One scene has vengeful gangsters mowing down cattle with a Tommy-gun!The following year, Monogram Pictures and producer Paul Malvern launched a new line of B-westerns under the Lone Star moniker, featuring their new contract star John Wayne. Much in the same vein as the Wayne vehicles, Broadway To Cheyenne has some decent action scenes and appearances by western stars George "Gabby" Hayes and Earl Dwire.

This movie has cars and horses and nightclubs and pool table saloons. Machine guns and cows and big city mobsters who have a beef with the beef ranchers. High steaks, but the only T bone you will see is a trombone just before the lights go out. Really you have to see it. This movie has phone booth violence and wide open spaces chases and gunfights in the Rockies. It actually has a drive by shooting. I won't give away any of the plot but I will tell you Clara Bow had excellent taste. Young Rex Bell here, still in his twenties, does a strip scene which probably got everyone in the theater to buy another ticket to watch again to see if what they saw was for real. At about 17 minutes into the movie watch for Rex to be stripped by a bunch of cowboys. All in good fun, of course. These are manly men who just want to take the young guy's clothes off. Then go watch some football. Not only do they strip him down to his white boxers, but apparently this was before they had learned how to sew the opening of those boxers ( or maybe loose briefs ) closed. No tape was used to conceal anything. Nothing major is showing except maybe that opening might be more clear in the first editions of this movie. I watched a fuzzy image... fuzzy might be the key word. This movie is actually good enough for most people who are able to accept black and white. I think Rex Bell could be a star today if he looked like this and acted like this. He is very charming. When I first moved to Nevada in the early 1960s Rex was the Leutenant Governor and he was very much liked by Nevadans. I recommend this and be sure to watch any Clara Bow movie to see Rex's wife Clara. Look up their story. They had amazing careers plus wild private lives. There is one suicide in this movie and it was realistic for its time.

Broadway To Cheyenne starts off with a bunch of big city gangsters fighting and killing each other with Detective Breezy Kildare caught in the middle. When Breezy goes out west to the ranch where he grew up he runs into the same bunch of crooks. The gangsters are offering "protection" to the local ranchers. For the rest of the movie it's cowboys and gangsters.Even though there is a story in Broadway To Cheyenne it just looks odd to see a bunch of New York City gangsters riding around the desert in a car fighting cowboys on horses. A gangster shooting a Tommy gun versus a cowboy with a revolver does not look right either.As Breezy, Rex Bell seems out of place as a cowboy. It is easier to think of him as the big city cop because of the build-up in the beginning of the movie. He fights the same people he was fighting in New York. The characters are the same, but the setting has changed. George Hayes does not play a sidekick, just an old cowhand. You can see the seeds of the Windy/Gabby character that he would develop later. He is not cantankerous, just rough and western. During the early 1930's Hayes played a variety of characters, so he could not be expected to be the old codger all the time. His role is minor, but he still has a great presence in Broadway To Cheyenne.Broadway To Cheyenne definitely has the feel of a 1932 movie. If it were strictly a gangster movie or a western it would be perfect for that time. Instead it was a fun idea that someone decided to work with, but it was not a great western.