William Farnum fights the men who impugn the honor of Lloyd Ingraham's daughter; she has just married a man whom Ingraham does not approve of. Farnum's son is shot and pronounced dead, so Farnum shoots all of the men he was fighting and skedaddles. But the boy is not dead. Ingraham raises him into Johnny Mack Brown. Brown gets the story about Ingraham's daughter: they went west, disappeared, and she is supposed to have died giving birth to a daughter.
Brown heads off to find her and bring her to her grandfather. The next shot, he's being directed to Farnum's ranch, where he is raising Ingraham's grand daughter, played by Beth Marion in her first credited role. Everyone is going under fake names. Brown and Miss Marion fall in love, but Farnum thinks he's just a drifter, and orders him away.
The plot barely holds together, but it's good to see Farnum giving a rip-roaring performance, and there's a stunt sequence which involves Brown -- more likely his stunt double -- crawling between a team of racing horses, and a wagon going over a cliff while Brown and Miss Marion -- again, probably, their stunt doubles -- leap to safety. There's Earl Dwire as the big baddie, so the cast is pretty good. It's an entertaining B western.
Brown heads off to find her and bring her to her grandfather. The next shot, he's being directed to Farnum's ranch, where he is raising Ingraham's grand daughter, played by Beth Marion in her first credited role. Everyone is going under fake names. Brown and Miss Marion fall in love, but Farnum thinks he's just a drifter, and orders him away.
The plot barely holds together, but it's good to see Farnum giving a rip-roaring performance, and there's a stunt sequence which involves Brown -- more likely his stunt double -- crawling between a team of racing horses, and a wagon going over a cliff while Brown and Miss Marion -- again, probably, their stunt doubles -- leap to safety. There's Earl Dwire as the big baddie, so the cast is pretty good. It's an entertaining B western.