The Apache Kid's Escape Full Movie 1930 | Jack Perrin | Poverty Row Western Early Sound Talkie

The Apache Kid's Escape (1930) - a Poverty Row western starring Jack Perrin and Josephine Hill. Written, directed and produced by Robert J. Horner. Shot in Valencia, California. Runtime: 50 minutes.
The Apache Kid has gone straight. His old partner Buck Harris has not. When Buck starts committing robberies wearing the Kid's trademark chequered scarf, the Kid has to clear his name, rescue a young man wrongly implicated, and get out of the territory before two sheriffs catch up with him.

The plot is straightforward. The circumstances around the film are more interesting.

The Apache Kid's Escape is one of the first fully sound westerns produced by a Poverty Row studio. By 1930, the major studios had been making talkies for three years, but the low-budget independent producers on Gower Street in Hollywood had been unable to secure the limited sound equipment available and had continued making silents long after audiences stopped wanting them. This film represents the moment Poverty Row caught up - or tried to. The results are rough. Dialogue is hesitant. Pauses fall in the wrong places. The actors had not yet learned how to speak to a microphone hidden in a cactus prop.

Robert J. Horner wrote, directed and produced the film. He was considered the bottom of the Poverty Row barrel by his contemporaries - and his contemporaries included some genuinely bad filmmakers. The film is a remake of his own The White Outlaw, which he had made the previous year as a silent. Jack Perrin's five-picture deal with Horner ended in court when Perrin received only $1,425 of the $2,900 agreed. He sued. He won.

Perrin's real wife, Josephine Hill, plays the female lead. Glenn Strange, who plays a deputy sheriff here, later spent eighteen seasons as Sam the bartender on Gunsmoke. In 1930 he was working for Robert J. Horner.

🎬 Director: Robert J. Horner
📖 Written by: Robert J. Horner
🎭 Cast: Jack Perrin (The Apache Kid),
Josephine Hill (Jane Wilson),
Fred Church (Ted Conway),
Bud Osborne (Buck Harris),
Buzz Barton (Tim Wells),
Glenn Strange (Deputy Sheriff)
📅 Released: 1930 | Runtime: 50 min
🏢 Production: Cosmos Productions (Poverty Row)
📍 Filmed: Valencia, California
📺 Based on: The White Outlaw (1929) — same director
⚖️ Jack Perrin sued Horner for unpaid wages — and won
🎬 Glenn Strange later: Sam the bartender, Gunsmoke (18 seasons)

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