I'm a huge Randolf Scott fan. I think he's the perfect cowboy hero for Westerns. Tall, lanky, long legs, rugged, square jawed, blue eyes, blonde hair, & a great masculine voice. This was an exciting one. Randolf is out riding with a stagecoach hoping he'll run into the outlaws that robbed it awhile back. When he leaves his post for minute it gets robbed. He knows they're going to hit the bank next so he goes into town to warn them. No one believes him. They think he's one of the crooks. He gets stuck inside a saloon with the whole town out to get him. They try to smoke him out. Some want him shot, some hold sticks of fire & some hold rope with a noose ready to string him up. But the Sheriff is a friend & just wants him in jail. Meanwhile the bad guys ride in & while the townspeople are focused on Randolf, they rob the bartender & all the gamblers in a saloon. They're going to rob the bank next & Randolf's stuck unable to get at these crooks he's been after. The story has a lot of suspense because there's so many people against him. Randolf can't seem to get a break. First the bad guys tie him up, rob the stagecoach,
& ride off leaving him alone in the desert to die. Then when he manages to get free & rides into town to warn them the town doesn't believe it & turn on him. Nobody is willing to cut him any slack in this Western & the tension gets tighter as things close in on Randolf. As you know things always turn out for the best & in this one it's an especially happy ending when the bad guys are caught, & Randolf finally gets acknowledged as
the hero he was trying to be all along.
Want him hung.
Want him hung.