Zeus

The Untamed Breed (1948)

• Director
  • Charles Lamont
• Writers
  • Eli Colter(story "Something to Brag About")
  • Tom Reed(screenplay)
• Stars
  • Sonny Tufts
  • Barbara Britton
  • George 'Gabby' Hayes

  All cruel jokes aside, actor Sonny Tufts did on occasion deliver something resembling a good screen performance. In the Columbia B-plus western The Untamed Breed, Tufts plays a Texas rancher hoping to improve his breed of cattle. The play is to purchase an expensive Brahma bull and allow the animal to commiserate with Tufts' bovine stock. Unfortunately the bull is not agreeable to this setup; it goes on a rampage, killing off much of the cattle on neighboring ranches. Untamed Breed wavers between some well staged dramatic sequences and the usual all-stops-out gunplay.