The town is getting a station on the rail road, but there's a lot of lawlessness in town, and sheriff Jack Rockwell can't get a handle on it -- he doesn't know that his own brother is in cahoots with Edmund Cobb to drive the ranchers out and acquire their land. But his son, Mickey Kuhn, knows what to do: he writes the Durango Kid in Texas -- that's all of the address. So a few days later, Charles Starrett and Smiley Burnette mosey into town, trying for a job as deputies.... but Rockwell expects to be impeached. So while the Durango Kid goes around threatening people if they sign the petition to get rid of Rockwell, Ted Mapes disguises himself as the Kid to hold up stagecoaches and drive the ranchers into bankruptcy.
It's a typically competent flicker out of Columbia's B Western unit, with a good story, competent performance, Burnette's clowning, and even Merle Travis as the guitar player in the band that's around whenever Burnette wants to sing. Fans of B Westerns will enjoy themselves.
It's a typically competent flicker out of Columbia's B Western unit, with a good story, competent performance, Burnette's clowning, and even Merle Travis as the guitar player in the band that's around whenever Burnette wants to sing. Fans of B Westerns will enjoy themselves.
