Summoned to Shadow Ranch by his friend Ranny Williams, Sim Baldwin arrives to find Ranny has been ambushed and murdered. Sim learns ranch owner Ruth Cameron is under pressure to sell out to Dan Blake, as the dam on the ranch controls the town's water supply. Vowing to avenge his old friend's death, Sim takes up Ruth's fight and incurs Blake's hostility.
Stunts
Buck Jones doing his own horse stunts like a maniac.
Production
Early talkie Western shot on actual California ranch land.
Director
Louis King
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of Buck Jones's first sound pictures after becoming a huge silent Western star—studio marketed 'ALL-TALKING' in caps like it was a threat.
The 'singing cowboy' craze was just taking off in 1930, and Shadow Ranch awkwardly straddles the line—Jones wasn't Gene Autry, but the studio made him sing anyway.
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