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Lone Hand (Universal-International) suggests a number of disquieting thoughts to horse-opera fans: Is Joel McCrea, a rugged hero .who has been on the side of right in countless westerns, the varmint he seems to be in this particular oater? Is Joel in cahoots with a bunch of badmen who are holding up stagecoaches, robbing express offices and murdering sheriffs? And will Joel, as a result, lose the affections of his worshiping young son (Jimmy Hunt) and adoring wife (Barbara Hale)?

Such questions are not to be answered lightly, and Lone Hand answers them slowly and laboriously. But Joel is no bad man, pardner. By the fadeout, love, justice, righteousness--as well as Hollywood type-casting--have been vindicated.

The Bandits of Corsica (Global Productions; United Artists) has another go at the creaking old dual-identity plot. This time Richard Greene is cast as 1) a gypsy knife thrower, and 2) a dashing nobleman who espouses (circa 1830) the cause of Corsican freedom against French Tyrant Raymond Burr. It seems that the nobleman and the gypsy are Siamese twins. Though severed by surgery, they are still tied to each other by a strange spiritual bond. Before long, the twins join forces against the tyrant who finds himself seeing double. Additional complications set in when twin No. 1 (the gypsy) develops a more than spiritual interest in the beautiful wife (Paula Raymond) of twin No. 2. With its wealth of ambushes, ambuscades, assaults and assassinations, The Bandits of Corsica could scarcely have any more hackneyed action if the heroes were triplets.

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