Stand up and Fight

Stand Up and Fight (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) continues its manufacturer's determined campaign to make Robert Taylor a he-man by surrounding him with rough associates. In fact, since the cast includes Charles Bickford, Barton MacLane and Wallace Beery, any one of whom is usually considered enough to supply virility for a full-length picture, the cast of Stand Up and Fight amounts practically to an All-American team of heavies.

In addition to being a specimen of rough & tumble drama, Stand Up and Fight is a specimen of period drama. Taylor is an impoverished Maryland squire, working for a stage-coach company whose owner (Florence Rice, daughter of Sportswriter Grantland Rice) does not know that the manager (Beery) is in cahoots with a gang of slave runners. By the time Taylor has tracked down the gang, unmasked the manager and become engaged to the owner, the audience gets a full quota of 1850 Southern dialect, frontier poker games and races between horse-drawn stages and primitive locomotives.

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