When Tim Barrett rides into Carabinas, his reputation as a lawman precedes him. Rescuing Polly Loomis from the unwanted attentions of a saloon ruffian, he learns her mother married ranch foreman Nick Grindel shortly before her death, and left everything to him in her will. Nick has proposed marriage to his stepdaughter, and she fears violence if her hot-blooded brother Dick finds out. When a body is found at the Bow Knot, Tim barely rescues Dick from a necktie party and is deputized to investigate when Dick confesses to a crime he didn't commit.
Acting
Dwight Frye's unhinged brother energy — pure melodrama gold.
Practical Effects
Real horses, real dust, real necktie party tension.
Director
John P. McCarthy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of six Westerns Tim McCoy shot in 1932 alone — the man was a machine in chaps.
Dwight Frye, playing the unhinged brother here, had just played Renfield in Dracula — Hollywood loved typing him as 'guy who loses his mind.'
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