Bob Steele cranked this one out for poverty row Supreme Pictures. It does not even start as a western but on the western front of the Great World War.Steele has been presumed dead and it's a big surprise when he returns home. But he finds that his ranch has been taken over by perennial western movie heavy Charles King. King is at his Snidely Whiplash best and he has designs on all that Steele and his family possess including Steele's girlfriend Margaret Marquis.Nothing real special here, a lot of stock footage both western and war film and a plot concerning a family feud. You want to see a film about feuding see The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine or the Romance Of Rosy Ridge.

This is a very strange plot for a B-western...very strange indeed. It begins in Europe during WWI--an odd setting for a western. You see a bunch of airplanes supposedly attacking some soldiers. There are only two problems with this--the soldiers are clearly French soldiers from WWI and the planes are from the 1930s. So, not only is this anachronistic but the planes are attacking our allies! This is pretty weird and the stock footage is inserted in such a random manner it appears as if the film makers were drunk.In this attack, our hero Bob Steele is injured and spends a lot of time in the hospital. When he recovers he's sent home---only to learn that he's been reported dead and none of his letters home have arrived. A local baddie has apparently intercepted the letters. At first it's pretty obvious that the jerk did this because he wanted Bob's fiancée for himself. But this is only half of it--and the exact reason for his diabolical plans turns out to be pretty weird. You certainly can not guess what it's all really about--and if you can, give yourself a pat on the back. In the end, two standard clichés come into play--a secret government agent (a very common theme in John Wayne's Bs) and a final confrontation where the dumb good guy throws away his guns to battle it out bare-knuckle style! I hate clichés--and without them the film would have been a lot better. And, being an annoying stickler for historical accuracy, I hated the WWI sequence. Aside from that, it all plays like a somewhat typical (though oddly plotted) low-budget western. Watchable if you love the genre, but otherwise probably not to most people's liking.UPDATE: Goodness knows why, but I saw this film again yesterday. While I liked it a tiny bit more the second time (mostly because I like Bob Steele), it didn't improve much the second time around for me. Too many plot holes, too much BAD stock footage (mixing WWI and 1930s stock footage of airplanes and battles) and an ending that took forever, it's not a great film by my standards.

Believe it or not, 'The Last Of The Warrens' is one of the most entertaining movies I've seen in a long while. After a soldier comes back from the War to his small western town, everyone is shocked to see him.. they all thought he was dead! He's incredibly puzzled by this though, because he wrote almost every chance he got. After tearfully reuniting with his Dad and his long-suffering girlfriend, we find out that it's the POSTMASTER who's got a vendetta against poor Ted Warren! (It's all a long simmering family feud you see). Soon, Bob has to save his girlfriend, avenge his father being injured by the postmaster AND try to stop the bank robbery that just happened in town! Good grief almighty! This is, as you can probably tell, a whole lot of fun. Bob Steele is great as Ted Warren, who just wants to return to a simple life, and Charles King plays a convincing (and nimble!) heavy. This seemed to have put some THOUGHT into it, which is nice for a B-Western such as this, as the story cracks with suspense (I was rubbing my hands at some points wondering what was going to happen), great fight sequences (the two go at it like they were genuinely angry at each other, and not some sissy fights which I keep seeing from other Westerns) and has a relationship I finally care about. WELL DONE!