Sky Bandits

I am a big fan of Tim McCoy films. He was an excellent actor and I have seen just about every film available. However, despite being a fan, I must admit that his 1936 film "Ghost Patrol" is just awful...the worst film I've seen. Amazingly, the plot was stolen by another production company and remade as "Sky Bandits" only four years later. You'd think that if they were going to do something like this that they'd steal a GOOD script!!

This Renfrew of the Mounties film is bad. As I mentioned above, much of it is its reliance on an already bad story idea (one that, incidentally, was also used in at least one serial)....but it also was hard to enjoy thanks to some godawful supporting characters. Renfrew's partner and comic relief was about as welcome and funny as Ebola and every time he appeared on screen I felt irritated. I felt about equally annoyed with the very hard of hearing fellow...who kept appearing again and again...even though he was simply annoying. As a result, there wasn't much for Renfrew to do but try to get noticed...mostly unsuccessfully.

The plot involves a professor and his device to knock planes out the sky...and an evil gang's using him for their evil ends. It all seemed very farfetched and silly. And, the film simply was a chore to finish.