A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Unfortunately, in stark contrast to the excellent work DVD companies have done for Gene Autry and Bill Boyd, Roy Rogers has been treated rather shabbily. Many of the titles on sale offer blurry, faded, out-of-focus pictures with garbled and/or muffled sound tracks. Even worse, the Trucolor entries are often presented in various shades of gray. An exception is "Night Time in Nevada" (1948) which Mill Creek present in a well-graded black-and-white copy. I'd rather watch Trucolor, but even in black-and-white, the movie provides a feast for railroad buffs, plus fans of Grant Withers who turns in one of his most charismatic portrayals ever. In fact, I think Sloan Nibley wrote his screenplay primarily with Withers in mind as the villain, and then added Roy, Andy Devine and the super-wonderful George Carleton who plays the crooked lawyer.

Not a bad LITTLE Western with Roy Rogers. This is one of the first of Roy's films that I've seen in at least 50 years, and it occurred to me that one of the attractions to Roy's movies was that a story was told in about an hour, so the stories would move right along with no lulls in the action.Here, a murder years earlier rears it ugly head when the daughter of the murdered gold miner goes west to get her inheritance. The original murderer and his buddies intend keeping that inheritance, as well as the cattle belonging to Roy and the Sons Of The Pioneers. Helping to solve both issues is deputy Andy Devine...which isn't quite the buffoon that he often portrayed. The only downer here is the female sort-of-love-interest Adele Mara...hardly even a B actress.Roy plays Roy, Trigger is along, of course. Grant Withers is a very limited talented bad guy. Marie Harmon is Adele Mara's best friend (another less than B actress). Joseph Crehan is the engineer Casey; Crehan had quite a long career. George Carleton plays the relatively crooked attorney. Bob Nolan and the Sons Of The Pioneers are along as Roy's pals and provide a nice background for the title song.If you like them simple, sweet, and brief, you can watch the film on Amazon video service, but the video quality is limited. Great for Roy's fans...I guess there are a few of us left.

A ruthless gold miner blows his partner, only to discover that the mine he killed for is useless. He then squanders the trust-fund meant for the dead man's daughter and attempts to replace the funds by stealing Roy Roger's cattle.Coming near the end of Roy's career as a Saturday matinée star (and TV re-launch), Night Time In Nevada is more violent and a bit more hard-boiled than previous films. The opening scene is a first-person murder confession, the subsequent killing of the train conductor pretty cold-blooded, and the climax full of people getting shot!Villain Grant Withers is one really mean hombre! Walking and talking like a B-movie Broderick Crawford, he gives a great, nasty performance.Comedic elements are down-played and Dale Evans nowhere to be found. In the edited version, Roy nor Bob Nolan and The Sons Of The Pioneers get a chance to sing! All of this, along with the edited version being black and white instead of color, contribute to the somewhat darker tone of the film.Recommended.

Predictable but competent western from the usual suspects. I purchased this one on sale from TCM.Com. IMDb has it listed as "color", but the DVD version is quite black & white, so i'll add that. When Joan Andrews inherits a chunk of money from her prospector father, she goes out west to claim it, and runs into roadblocks and crooks along the way. The police (Andy Devine and Roy Rogers) set out to help her and get the crooks behind bars. Not a bad story. Adele Mara and Marie Harmon play the city slickers who go west, and play the helpless gals out of their element. A couple songs by the "Pioneers", of course. Did you also catch Hank Patterson as one of the tramps down by the tracks, with a speaking part? This was about 20 years before Petticoat Junction and Green Acres, where he played Mr. Ziffel. Directed by William Whitney, king of the westerns. Good way to spend 66 minutes.