This was Tom Keene's fourth starring Western and only his second under the name that would make him a B-movie star (he was billed by his birth name, George Duryea, until 1930). Like most low-budget Westerns, this film was made for a modest sum, only $39,000. But that didn't stop Keene from delivering, this time as a feckless youth who grows up fast when his father is killed, and he has to save the family's freight transport business. Unknown to him, the banker (Mitchell Harris) who refuses to lend him the money to save the company is also behind the outlaw raids that killed Keene's father and have cost them some of their wagons. Many of Keene's RKO Westerns were supervised by Fred Allen, a one-time editor, whose career dated back to silent films made for Thomas H. Ince. For this picture, he also moved into the director's chair, taking his cast to locations in California's Alabama Hills and Placerita Canyon. Leading lady Barbara Kent could also trace her career back to the silent days. She was the good girl in Flesh and the Devil (1926) but had trouble finding other quality productions. She retired in 1935 after marrying producer-agent Harry Edington.

By Frank Miller