Tonight's Movie: Under Arizona Skies (1946) and Range Justice (1949) - A Warner Archive Blu-ray Review

I spent my Sunday evening enjoying the Monogram Matinee Volume 3 from the Warner Archive Collection.This Blu-ray set features two "B" Westerns, UNDER ARIZONA SKIES (1946) and RANGE JUSTICE (1949), both starring Johnny Mack Brown.The first film, UNDER ARIZONA SKIES, runs 59 minutes and was directed by Lambert Hillyer.Brown plays Dusty Smith, who as the movie opens breaks up a crooked card game. He saves money being swindled from a rancher (Frank LaRue) who's in ill health and is rewarded with the offer of a job. The rancher also hopes that Dusty can rein in his heir to the ranch, hotheaded Bill (Riley Hill).Before long Bill reforms, to the relief of his fiancee Cindy (Reno Blair), and helps Dusty solve cattle rustlings.The story, written by J. Benton Cheney from a story by John McCarthy, was the stronger of the two films in the set, and there was also some outstanding black and white location photography, by Harry Neumann; some of the film appeared to be shot at Iverson Movie Ranch.The…