A singing cowboy, a smuggler queen, and a secret adoption—B-Western chaos at 54 minutes flat.
Kate Diamond owns the Roaring Falls Trading Post from where she directs her gang's gun-smuggling to the Indians. After she short-changes smuggler Stacey, his men attempt to steal the hidden guns, and attack her foreman Nebraska, but he is saved by Jimmy and "Cannonball" on their way to file a homestead claim at Canyon City. Jimmy renews a long acquaintance with Sheriff Harris and his daughter Jessica. The sheriff is wounded by half-breed Danny when he finds a rifle hidden in the latter's wagon, but Jimmy captures the outlaw, a go-between for Kate and the Indians.Wounded and in bed, Sheriff Harris ask Jimmy not to tell Jessica that she is only adopted and that Nebraska is really her father, although he believes her to be dead.
Acting
Mae Clarke slumming gloriously as gun-queen villain.
Production
Monogram Pictures magic: shot in days, lasts forever.
Director
Lambert Hillyer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'singing cowboy' subgenre peaked in the 1940s B-movie circuit, with Jimmy Wakely as Gene Autry's cheaper, weirder competitor.
Mae Clarke was James Cagney's grapefruit victim in 'The Public Enemy' (1931)—here she's the one doing the damage.
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