a5c7b9f00b With US G-Men hot on their trail, gangsters "Dapper Dan" Geary and Jo-Jo Regan escape into the Elks River Forest Preserve in northwest Canada, where another criminal, "Frenchie" Le Farge is doing his scene and scenery-chewing best to become Canada's top public enemy. At the Elks River Barricks, RCMP Sergeant Jim McGregor renews his friendship with Doris McCloud, the daughter of his superior office Inspector McCloud. Doris is invited to meet the noted American author Stephen Norris, but it is not Norris who occupies the lonely cabin in the forest, but "Dapper Dan" who, with a false beard, is an exact double of the writer, and he and Jo-Jo are holding the real Norris prisoner. The American gangsters team up with Le Farge, an old cell mate of Jo-Jo's. Dan hires Doris as a stenographer and moves his operation into the Inn as a plan to get next to something interesting, other than Doris. He learns that Jim is to meet a lumber company paymaster and escort him and a $5,000 payroll to the mill. Le Farge decides to steal the payroll on his own but Jim outwits him. That night, the Inn throws a grand ball masque and even Le Farge and his henchies show up disguised as Mexican bandits. Jim has lifted some fingerprints from a glass held by Geary and the net begins to tighten on the gangsters and outlaws.
A deranged killer escapes into the Canadian woods. He tries to fool the locals by pretending he is a well known mystery writer, but the local Mountie starts to get suspicious.
Kermit Maynard doesn't usually get praise for his acting nor for the quality of his movies, but "Phantom Patrol" proves he has been terribly under-rated.<br/><br/>For example, I had known nothing of his athleticism, but pay attention during the barrack-room horse-play. Amazing!<br/><br/>I expected nothing much when I started watching "Phantom Patrol" on YouTube, but was enthralled from the very beginning, partly by the credits and partly by the music. Unfortunately, even here at IMDb, there is no credit for the music.<br/><br/>The director, Charles Hutchison, is someone I had seen in some silent serials where he was "Lightning Hutch." Until I saw the credits here, I never knew he had become a director and, judging only by "Phantom Patrol," a very good director.<br/><br/>This is, obviously, a low-budget movie, but there is such a good and literate script, and the players are so above average, the lack of money doesn't matter.<br/><br/>For example, Harry Worth plays two parts, two very different characters although they do, of course, look alike. And he is two very different characters, in a great job of acting. (He reminds a bit of Basil Rathbone, both in his looks and his debonair attitude.)<br/><br/>Kermit Maynard had a brief fling as a star but was soon relegated to "with" parts in bigger-budget movies, but here he is a very pleasant and believable Mountie. <br/><br/>Script writer Joseph O'Donnell, who here is called by the same name as one of the two characters played by Harry Worth, Stephen Norris, has created dialog that is at times amusing, with some nice interplay between and among the other characters.<br/><br/>There is an especially good line when the girl tells the Mountie he's dirty and he replies he got that way dodging bullets. Her response is classic, very, very clever.<br/><br/>The girl, by the way, is played by the lovely Joan Barclay, who sometimes is reminiscent of Myrna Loy, but feistier.<br/><br/>The inimitable Paul Fix is the chief villain's associate and dog's-body and is, as usual, believable and even likable, despite being a bad guy.<br/><br/>The rest of the cast are just so much icing on this delicious cake, and the only complaint I can make is of the quality of the print at YouTube. It's broken and choppy and those flaws can be distracting.<br/><br/>But it's worth putting up with that for the joy of the movie. I highly recommend "Phantom Patrol" for many reasons, and hope you like it too.
I fully agree with everything Michael Morrison says in his review. In fact, I don't really need to write a review myself. Please look it up right here on IMDb. I'll just fill in a bit of time here, so that IMDb will publish this review. The only useful observation I could make is that I would never, never, never watch anything on you-tube, because as Michael Morrison points out, the prints are often far from satisfactory. <br/><br/>Fortunately , a very good print of "The Phantom Patrol" is included as an extra on the "Brand of the Devil" disc which is available on the Alpha DVD from Oldies.com. The only negative observation I would make about the movie and the print is that the conclusion of the final reel seems a trifle rushed. We know what's going to happen but it would have been nice to actually see the love birds wrap the movie up in grand fashion on the screen. A clever observation from the real writer would have been welcome too.<br/><br/>"The Phantom Patrol" is included as a bonus with "Brand of the Devil". Do yourself a favor and watch it now. As a rule you can't go wrong with any Charles Hutchison movie and "The Phantom Patrol" is no exception.
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