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When Tom Cameron the Lone Rider (George Houston) & his sidekick Fuzzy (Al
St.John) learn about prospectors disappearing in the vicinity of ghost
town Parker's Diggings from their friend Moosehide (Budd Buster) & about
several prospectors being cheated out of their claims by respected businessman
Sinclair (Alden Chase), they decide to go to Parker's Diggings to investigate
themselves, but even their welcome to the town is an unfriendly one as they are
shot at by henchmen of local badman O'Shea (Frank Hagney), but can escape the
bullets & enter the ghost town, where they soon find a secret mine right
beneath the city, & in it Helen Clark (Alaine Brandes), a girl desperately
in search of her father (Edward Peil sr), a mining engineer who had found a
vast goldmine & set up a deal with Sinclair but had soon disappeared - what
she does not yet know is that he is a prisoner of O'Shea, desperately trying to
get information about the mine, & that O'Shea is actually a partner in
crime of Sinclair, whom Helen trusts.
When Sinclair & O'Shea realise that Lone Rider & Fuzzy might have
found some clues that might lead to them, and that all their henchmen might be
no match for them, they try to get rid of them the legal way, accusing them of
the murder of Gordon (Reed Howes), one of their henchies, but the Rider &
Fuzzy make an escape, &, returning to the ghost town, find Gordon, pretty
much alive.
To clear their name, they want to present Gordon to justice, but are
attacked on their way to town & Gordon receives a stray bullet that kills
him. Only thanks to 2 witnesses are the Rider's & Fuzzy's claims about the
attack verified.
O'Shea has since thought up another ingenious plan to kill the Lone Rider:
As he knows the Rider will come back to the ghost town to look for Clark, he
pretends to become all sympathetic with Clark, sets him free & even hands
him a gun ... the gun, O'Shea is sure, Clark will shoot the Lone Rider with
once he spots him in one of the mineshafts. & the plan almost works, too,
wouldn't the Lione Rider duck the bullet, & Helen step in just before the
Rider can shoot Clark in self defense.
Back in town, Clark wants to finalize his deal with Sinclair, but Sinclair
of course proves little helpful & is reluctant to accept a cheque,
demanding 40.000 Dollars in cash before sundset ... only the bank where to cash
the cheque is miles away, with only the Lone Rider maybe being a quick enough
rider to make it there & back just in time. & despite him being
attacked by O'Shea's henchmen, the Lone Rider not only makes it but also can
arrange for O'Shea's arrest ... who talks, & talks plenty to drag Sinclair
down with him ...
Rather mediocre b-Western in the Lone Rider-series, that pretty much
neglects the spooky possibilities of the ghost-town/mine-shaft-sets for a
straight forward Western yarn, plus George Houston (by then already in his
forties) does not make the most impressive of Western-heroes, & hsi trained
tenor-voice does not sit too well with the light atmosphere of a light
series-Western.
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