A Tenderfoot Goes West
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Maurice G. O'neill
Russell Gleason
Virginia Carroll
Jack La Rue
Joseph Girard
John Ince Hal
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Synopsis
Writer J. Wellington Pike, an Easterner who has written several western novels, portrays the West as an unruly place where people are always shooting one another. When Ann Keith learns that Pike, whom she met the previous summer, is arriving in the West for the first time, she and her friends plan to make the West live up to his expectations. Pike is picked up at the train station by Handlebar Ike, who has been tipped off to the joke. Ike does his laconic best to put a scare into Pike by warning him always to carry a gun. When Pike arrives at the Keith ranch, he tells Ann that she was the inspiration for the heroines of his novels. She convinces him to buy a "typical" western outfit that, coincidentally, is exactly the same as one worn by a real outlaw, Killer Madden. Unknown to Ann, Madden has learned about her joke and plans to take the opportunity to rob the local bank. In the meantime, the sheriff pretends to believe that Pike is Madden and "arrests" him. One of Madden's men also mistakes Pike for the outlaw and hands him the stolen money. Another friend of Ann's, posing as one of Madden's men, breaks Pike out of jail and tells him that the gang plans to kidnap Ann and hold her for ransom. At the same time, Madden's gang is actually planning to kidnap Ann. Pike goes along with the fake gang and, when Ann's father pretends to be wounded, goes for water. While Pike is gone, Madden rides up and demands Keith's payroll money. Madden and Pike then meet outside the ranch, and Pike overcomes him and holds him for the sheriff, proving himself a real Westerner.
Director
Maurice G. O'neill
Cast
Russell Gleason
Virginia Carroll
Jack La Rue
Joseph Girard
John Ince Hal
Ralph Byrd Steve
Chris Martin Stubby
Si Jenks
John Merton
Peewee Strange
Ray Turner
Crew
Film Details
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The above summary and onscreen credits were taken from a dialogue continuity deposited at the NYSA. Although the continuity included a 1936 copyright statement, the title was not found in copyright register. The working title of this film was Wellington Pike Goes West. The plot bears a close resemblance to the 1934 Reliable picture Mystery Ranch and the 1931 Standard Pictures Corp. film, Lightnin' Smith's Return.
