It starts out with pals J. Farrel MacDonald and William Farnum discovering a baby boy, and quarreling over him. Twenty or so years go by, and the baby has grown up to be Bill Boyd, raised by afar I'm. Meanwhile, MacDonald has acquired Helen Twelvetrees as a daughter. Boyd discovers tungsten ore on MacDonald's land and tries to effect a rapprochement between the two men, but Farnum throws him out, so Bill cuts a deal with MacDonald, saying some day both men will admit they were wrong.
It's an ok western, the last movie produced by Pathé before the merger with RKO. If it's remembered, it's for being the first major role of fifth-billed Clark Gable, who wanders into the trouble, relaxed and leering at Miss Twelvetrees - and White can blame him? It's one of those loose-jointed westerns that Pathé would produce for four or five years, with some fine camerawork by DP Joseph Lashelle, who seems to have spent the majority of his career on Fox programmers. Good location shooting is rather muted by the poor copies that have circulated for decades, but it's a handsome little Boyd oater, made during the trough of his career between silents for Demille and Hopalong Cassidy.
It's an ok western, the last movie produced by Pathé before the merger with RKO. If it's remembered, it's for being the first major role of fifth-billed Clark Gable, who wanders into the trouble, relaxed and leering at Miss Twelvetrees - and White can blame him? It's one of those loose-jointed westerns that Pathé would produce for four or five years, with some fine camerawork by DP Joseph Lashelle, who seems to have spent the majority of his career on Fox programmers. Good location shooting is rather muted by the poor copies that have circulated for decades, but it's a handsome little Boyd oater, made during the trough of his career between silents for Demille and Hopalong Cassidy.