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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, NOV. 30, 1950
At the Flicks By Bill Stratton
"Saddle Tramp" Patee Theater
If your nerves are still tense from the Thanksgiving vacation, this should prove to be a restful experience for you. Although "Saddle Tramp" deals with stock western situations, such as cattle rustling, inter-cherrier jealousies, and occasional shooting scraps, there isn't a tense moment in it.
This is not to say it is a bad movie. Joel McCrea, wandering cowboy (saddle trump), finds himself inadvertently burdened with four orphaned children and a 19-year-old girl (Wanda Hendrix). To feed this gang, he takes work with a rancher who suspects his neighbor of stealing cattle. As is customary in westerns, everything ends tidily enough.
Obviously, this situation could easily give way to the usual B-grade sentimentality and general bad taste, but in this film it doesn't. The best quality of "Saddle Tramp" is the restraint with which it is played. Despite certain incredible moments, such as that in which McCrea and Miss Hendrix flee, without cover, unobserved, through a farmyard which resembles in bareness the arena at Madison Square Garden, the picture manages to emerge as a quite believable affair.
One thing that detracts from the rather notable realism of the film is a singularly inappropriate oath, "creepin' creepers," which falls from the lips of Mr. McCrea more times than I like to remember. In fact, I found myself frequently longing for a tannish, robust "gosh dam."
This thing is all done up in technicolor.
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