Few viewers of this low-budget RKO Western could have guessed that within a few years leading lady Laraine Johnson would become a star at MGM as Laraine Day, best known as Nurse Mary Lamont, Lew Ayres's love interest in the Dr. Kildare movies. She stars here as the granddaughter of a miner caught squatting on cowboy George O'Brien's land. One look at Day and O'Brien feels compelled to help the pair out, which includes picking up the rights to their supposedly worthless mine from local swindler Fred Kohler. No sooner is the ink dry on the contract, than Kohler discovers the mine is far from worthless and sets his goons to work trying to keep O'Brien from making anything off his purchase. O'Brien had been a silent film star in pictures like John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924) and F.W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927). His popularity was already slipping when sound came in, but with his natural athletic prowess and horsemanship he had no trouble transitioning to low-budget Westerns, where he made his living until signing up for military duty during World War II. Among the recurring elements of his Westerns were sidekicks Ray Whitley and Stanley Fields and director David Howard.

By Frank Miller