This B western filmed for Eagle-Lion Studios was able to grab both Mickey Rooney and Robert Preston probably on the cheap as both of these players had been cut by their studios and looking for work. Add to this Robert Stack and Wanda Hendrix and you've got the principals for My Outlaw Brother.
Rooney is the brother and Stack is the outlaw. Mickey arrives from the east, a tenderfoot looking to visit his brother who sends money back east regularly and is a mine owner in northern Mexico. He's operating in the same area where the notorious El Tigre and his band of outlaws from both Mexico and the USA reek havoc on both sides of the border and have a mountain stronghold that no one can get in or out of.
Texas Ranger Robert Preston likes Rooney but also sees him as a way of getting into the stronghold and capturing El Tigre. What Rooney doesn't know and Preston does is that Stack's not operating a mine, but reputed to be working for El Tigre. Stack is also courting the lovely Wanda Hendrix, but she has other ideas especially when Rooney shows up.
All our American stars perform well, but Mexican cinema star Jose Torvay may give the best performance as the town blacksmith whose son was killed by El Tigre's men and helps Preston and Rooney because he has nothing to live for.
Sad to say the production values were on the cheap and the script had a lot of holes in it. Quite a bit of this was also left on the cutting room floor. Still fans of the stars should like it.
Rooney is the brother and Stack is the outlaw. Mickey arrives from the east, a tenderfoot looking to visit his brother who sends money back east regularly and is a mine owner in northern Mexico. He's operating in the same area where the notorious El Tigre and his band of outlaws from both Mexico and the USA reek havoc on both sides of the border and have a mountain stronghold that no one can get in or out of.
Texas Ranger Robert Preston likes Rooney but also sees him as a way of getting into the stronghold and capturing El Tigre. What Rooney doesn't know and Preston does is that Stack's not operating a mine, but reputed to be working for El Tigre. Stack is also courting the lovely Wanda Hendrix, but she has other ideas especially when Rooney shows up.
All our American stars perform well, but Mexican cinema star Jose Torvay may give the best performance as the town blacksmith whose son was killed by El Tigre's men and helps Preston and Rooney because he has nothing to live for.
Sad to say the production values were on the cheap and the script had a lot of holes in it. Quite a bit of this was also left on the cutting room floor. Still fans of the stars should like it.