Rogue of the Range

Rogue of the Range is a 1936 American Western film directed by S. Roy Luby and starring Johnny Mack Brown, Lois January and in her only film, Phyllis Hume, Miss California 1936 and first runner-up for Miss America, where she used the name Phyllis Dobson.^[1][2] The film is also known as Spider and the Fly in the United Kingdom.^[3]

Rogue of the Range
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Directed by	S. Roy Luby
Written by	Earle Snell (adaptation) Earle Snell (story)
Produced by	A. W. Hackel
Starring	Johnny Mack Brown Lois January
Cinematography	Jack Greenhalgh
Edited by	S. Roy Luby
Distributed by	Supreme Pictures
Release date	April 25, 1936 (1936-04-25)
Running time	58 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

Dan Doran robs a stagecoach before a gang of robbers does, then meets a woman driving a runaway wagon with her father dead in the back of it. Doran is caught and sent to prison for 20 years, but he breaks out with a fellow prisoner and joins a robbery gang in the same area where he came from.

Cast

• Johnny Mack Brown as Dan Doran
• Lois January as Stella Lamb
• Stephen Chase as Lige Branscomb
• Phyllis Hume as Tess
• George Ball as Jim Mitchell
• Jack Rockwell as Henchman Sloan
• Horace Murphy as Sheriff Tom
• Frank Ball as John (express agent)
• Oscar Gahan as Stage guard

Reception

In a very brief review, TV Guide found that "Brown poses as an outlaw but is really a lawman in this below-par programmer".^[4]