Tom Evans (Jon Dawson) has trail-driven his heard to Yucca City, where he intends to sell the herd to Ben Crowley (Harry Woods). Crowley is the town boss who owns most everything of value in the town. The night before driving the cattle into town to make the final sale, Evans gets caught up in a crooked card game hosted by Crowley. During the game a U. S. Marshal, "Nevada Jack" McKensey (Johnny Mack Brown) who is working undercover, manages to obtain one of the fixed deck of cards. While Evans is engaged in the game Crowley takes his gang, rustles the cattle, and kills Evans' cowhands. When Evans learns his men have been shot, and his cattle stolen, he rushes out of the saloon, only to be shot in the back by one of Crowley's thugs. McKensey rescues Evans and shutters him with the local blacksmith Jeff Lewis (Sam Flint) and his daughters Mary. They send for U. S. Marshall Sandy Hopkins, Evans' uncle, and hatch a plan to make things right.
A well-paced and compactly-plotted western that stars Johnny Mack Brown as US Marshal Nevada Jack, but it's Raymond Hatton as US Marshal Sandy Hopkins who steals the scene as a dentist undercover. It's a formula western B-programmer but a fun one with enough things happening to reel you in.
A well-paced and compactly-plotted western that stars Johnny Mack Brown as US Marshal Nevada Jack, but it's Raymond Hatton as US Marshal Sandy Hopkins who steals the scene as a dentist undercover. It's a formula western B-programmer but a fun one with enough things happening to reel you in.
