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Opera singer Barry Glendon (Fred Scott, who really had a history as an
opera singer) decides to take a break from singing and go back home to the
West for a vacation. Once back home, he helps young Carol (Marion
Shilling) and her brother Johnny (Buzz Barton) against a gang of outlaws
led by Clem Allen (Bob Kortman) holding them up ... only to learn from
them that Clem's brother Jonas (Theodore Lorch) has sold them property in
the region which they believe is Barry's ranch - it's actually only a
worthless stretch of land next to it, but they don't know that, and Barry
doesn't want to be a spoilsport, so he treats them as the new owners of
his ranch until he can get even with the Allen-brothers, who
(unsuccessfully) use every trick in the book to scare Carol and Johnny
away. Then though Johnny finds out the truth, that Barry actually owns
their ranch, and decides it's time to shoot it out with Jonas. Barry stops
him though, but when they fight over Johnny's gun, it goes of and Johnny
is injured ... and here is where it gets illogical: Barry and his sidekick
Shorty (Cliff Nazarro) take Johnny, of all places, to Clem's hut, then
head off to fetch the doctor - while Clem has no problems persuading
Johnny and his sister Carol that it actually was Barry who tricked them
into buying the worthless land they bought. In the meantime though,
Shorty persuades Clem and Jonas that the Spanish treasure the Allens
looking for is actually on the property they sold to Carol and Johnny, and
in the end, they are buying the worthless stretch back for five times the
amount they got only to find out they've been tricked - while Barry gets
Carol. The fault of this B-Western is first and foremost its
plot: The whole premise of two out-of-towners tricked by some baddies but
helped by the hero is feeble at best, and throwing in a subplot about a
Spanish treasure doesn't exactly help the believability of the film, but
the many leaps of reason within the film's plot - like why do Carol and
Johnny suddenly trust Clem, who held them up at the beginning of the film
- really destroy the whole storyline and make the movie utterly
uninteresting.
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