Monday, October 26, 2009

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted (1937), Albert Herman.


Oh, man!  A mackinaw couch cushion!  It's like they skinned a hoser!

I was completely prepared to shut this off in two minutes, but... it's not bad.  It's a passable adventure story of Renfrew, an RCMP officer who stumbles on to a plot to kidnap an ex-forger and force him to create printing plates for ten dollar bills.  Oh, it's the cheese all right,  you can basically play Canada bingo:  we have an aboriginal guy in a canoe, campfires, the smell of venison, a vaguely British guy offering tea, the woods, and a she-wolf howling at the moon!  Renfrew happens to be the kind of Mountie that likes to break into song, with lots of tremolo.  I guess that's preferable to the kind we hear about these days that just want to tase everyone in the nads.  This is the first in the Sergeant Renfrew series; they made about eight in all.  

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