Rogue River

Rogue River

ADVENTURE IN THE GREAT NORTHWEST!

NR 1951 · 81 min · ★ 7.0 · Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western

The story of Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge. A $70,000 windfall, bequeathed to Dandridge by a man he'd once framed on a bank robbery charge, unleashes innumerable family skeletons. Ownie is obliged to solve the long-ago bank job himself, and in so doing he discovers that his "faithful" girl friend Judy was in on the scheme.

Directed by John Rawlins · Written by Louis Lantz

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