"Rainbow Ranch" has little going to recommend it other than the refreshing face and happy countenance of hero Rex Bell and the nicely considered acting job of Cecelia Parker as the heroine. The story here is just one more variation of wresting water rights and the gobbling up of land by a gang of bad guys.

That the story is thin and the rest of the proceedings is routine is hinted at by the long, drawn-out, and inconsequential opening boxing match gambit. And although this has got to be one of the less interesting efforts by B-western specialists director Harry Fraser and cinematographer Archie Stout, the work is not inferior for the genre'. The greatest fault that can be mentioned is that the jumps from long shots to closer-up group shots for dialogue betray obvious repositioning of the players.

In sum, "Rainbow Ranch" isn't to be avoided but it just doesn't have anything of notable merit to recommend it.