Gun Grit

Name: Gun Grit
Director: William Berke
Genre: Western
Released: 1936
Cast: Jack Perrin, Ethel Beck, David Sharpe, Roger Williams, Ralph Peters

1936 Western Directed by William Berke

About Gun Grit

City gangsters move onto ranch land with a cattle-protection racket. Federal agent Jack Perrin goes undercover. They catch him after he trails them. His horse Starlight helps him get out.

Cast & crew

William Berke Director
Jack Perrin
Ethel Beck
David Sharpe
Roger Williams
Ralph Peters
Frank Hagney
Jimmy Aubrey
Ed Cassidy
Phil Dunham
Oscar Gahan

More about Gun Grit

William Berke directed and produced it. Jack Perrin, David Sharpe, and Roger Williams are billed. It was made as a Poverty Row second feature. In the United Kingdom it was called Protection Racket.

Themes

A protection racket on the range
An agent undercover
A horse in the escape
Jack Perrin
cattle
William Berke
Starlight

Notes

Perrin plays the federal man.
The British title is Protection Racket.
Starlight is the horse that gets him clear.

Scenes

The gangsters lay the racket on the ranchers.
Perrin is taken, and Starlight is part of the getaway.

Also available

Internet Archive (GunGrit)
Wikimedia Commons (Gun Grit (1936).webm)