In the late 1940s, when, after his death, Faust had become a Hollywood legend, several of the Max Brand westerns were adapted for film. Republic did a version of Singing Guns which was released in 1950 with a popular singer of that era, Vaughan Monroe, as Rhiannon and the lovely Ella Raines as the female lead. A bearded Monroe did a passable job as a western hero, and the script showed some fidelity to its original, but the production is undeniably second rate and of little importance in the tradition of the western film. Ironically, a 1943 film western, The Desperadoes, based on an original.....
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