When mild mannered Friendly Fields is sent to the Blair ranch to work, he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw Blackie Burke. When a drought develops and the ranchers look for new grazing land, he plays the part and forces them to give he best plot to his boss Miss Blair. But no sooner than his mother arrives to expose the hoax, the real Blackie also arrives.
Acting
Ken Maynard's committed goofiness as the world's least intimidating outlaw.
Production
Depression-era Western sets that look held together with hope and twine.
Director
Arthur Rosson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ken Maynard was a genuine rodeo champion before Hollywood, making his awkward 'outlaw' posture here deliberately ridiculous—he knew exactly how to ride menacingly and chose not to.
This 1937 release captures the tail end of the singing cowboy boom; within three years, Gene Rogers would dominate and Maynard's particular brand of chaotic earnestness would become commercially extinct.
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