Tough Assignment

1h 4min

Western

Action

Adventure

Crime

A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!

Production Companies

Donald Barry Productions

Screen Guild Productions

Cast

Don 'Red' Barry

Don 'Red' Barry

Dan Reilly
Marjorie Steele

Marjorie Steele

Margie Reilly
Steve Brodie

Steve Brodie

Boss Morgan
Fred Kohler Jr.

Fred Kohler Jr.

Grant--Head Rancher
Michael Whalen

Michael Whalen

'Hutch' Hutchison
Edit Angold

Edit Angold

Mrs. Schultz
Stanley Andrews

Stanley Andrews

Chief Investigator Patterson
Stanley Price

Stanley Price

Al Foster

Release date

15th Nov 1949

Status

Released

Spoken languages

English