a5c7b9f00b Banker Watson is after Williams' ranch and has his men rob Lucky of the check Williams needs to pay off his note. When Saunders offers to lend Williams the money, Watson kills him and frames Williams. Then he sends a fake cattle inspector to quarantine Williams' cattle. But Lucky suspects Watson and he has a plan to bring him into the open and it also involves a fake inspector. OK, so this is not "Red River," and the plot has been used so many times that even one of Russell Hayden's saddle pals in the movie makes a derogatory remark about it. Still you not only have one of the few authentic cowboys in western movies, Russell Hayden, who could really ride, rope, and shoot, but you also have the best western swing band in the business led by the legendary Bob Wills himself. True, the Bob Wills tunes are not among his best, but any Bob Wills song is better than the best music Dimitri Tiomkin could concoct. As an extra added feature you get Dub Taylor, who was a wonderful comic and yes he could really play the xylophone. An unexpected bonus is an array of the ugliest bad guys I have ever seen in any movie. One of them makes Boris Karloff look like Cary Grant. So stop griping about the hackneyed script. Sit back and enjoy the action, the music, and the clowning. I just saw this movie on one of the premium channels and was totally disappointed but not surprised. It was the same story that I had seen over and over again in other "B" westerns of that time. I watched thisI am a fan of Russell Hayden but he should have stayed a sidekick of Hopalong Cassidythose were well done and had somewhat original stories. This is the last one for me.
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