"Brothers of the West" is one of a bazillion B-westerns that were made in the 1930s. However, among these, it's certainly one of the lesser films as it's made by a lower than usual budgeted small studio and the quality is correspondingly low. Plus, to be quite blunt, Tom Tyler has the personality of a bag of lint compared to most other cowboy stars.The film begins with Tome Wade (Tyler) about to go on vacation when he learns that his brother is wanted to murder in some western town. He knows his brother and knows it's all a mistake, so using his detective skills, he decides to investigate. However, he doesn't divulge to anyone in the town that he's a professional investigator. When he arrives in town, he learns that his brother still hasn't been caught--and he assumes he is either dead or being held captive. He also soon meets Miss Chandler, the nosy and stupid daughter of the murder victim. When folks start taking shots at him, Wade realizes that something bigger is going on in this crappy town.Like the lowest budgeted westerns, this one lacks incidental music, a sidekick and the great stunts and flourishes the better B-westerns usually had. It's not a terrible movie (though some of the acting sure is) but is one only the most die-hard fans of the genre will enjoy.

It comes in handy when you have a brother for a detective and in the old west when he's a range detective so much the better. Of course when you've been planning a vacation and it looks like you're finally going to go to New York to see the big Apple, a summons from kin must be answered no matter how inconvenient.Which is the position Tom Tyler finds himself in Brothers Of The West. The film opens with a homicide in connection with a robbery. A gang shoots and kills the bank president and Tyler's brother Bob Terry who is riding shotgun runs and hides the money before he's captured. That's why the gang doesn't kill him, Terry's hidden the loot before they could get it. But in the meantime the missing Terry is the number one suspect for the deed which is when Tyler enters the picture at the behest of his sister-in-law, Dorothy Short.Brothers Of The West has the look and feel of a mystery although the culprit is revealed early on. Lois Wilde who is the daughter of the slain bank president is pursuing her own line of investigation as to the whereabouts of the stolen money. Of course in the end she teams up with Tyler in more ways than one.This is not a bad B western at all, in fact with a little more polish and even a studio like RKO or Republic behind it, the film could have been an A picture product.