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On old man Foster's farms, Bob Dillon (David Sharpe) finds gold, but
when he wants to go tell it to his boss, 3 other farmhands, Reed (John
Merton), Wilkes (Stanley Blystone) & Jenkins (John Ward) do not
approve & shoot the boy to keep the gold for themselves, with plans to
steal Foster's cattle, sell it & with the money they get for it buy
Foster out of his land & live on the gold ...
The plan goes quite well, but what they didn't accout for was that
little Bob was Jim Dillon's (Kermit Maynard) younger brother, & Jim is
determined to bring the villains to justice. The threesome however has
soon found out about the ranger's plans & they are determined to shoot
him as a friendly welcome, a plan that ultimately fails.
From Foster's daughter Jane (Ariane Allen), Jim learns about the
threesome who has taken over her father's ranch, draws all the right
conclusion & pays them a visit, , pretending he wants to be cut in on
the deal, since it was his brother who found the gold. The 3 pretend to go
along, but once Jim has left again, they decide to lay an ambush. Only
Jenkins, struck by fear, stays behind, & jim, who has only pretended
to leave, confronts him & soon the 2 fight it out, a fight that is
only ended when Jenkins escapes on Jim's horse ... but rides right into
Reed's & Wilkes' ambush, & they, mistaking him for Jim because of
the horse, shoot him. Reed however, the brains of the threesome (now
twosome), soon figures a way how to still use it for their advantage &
blames the murder of jenkins on Jim, for which Jim is soon arrested, &
onla thanks to his sort-of sidekick Pop (Earl Dwire) does he manage to
escape.
& while the sheriff (Bob Burns) & Reed form a posse to capture
him, Jim pays a visit to Wilkes, & convinces him that Reed is cheating
him out of his share - so successfully so that Wilkes & Reed soon have
a little shootout - that only Reed survives.
At long last, Jim can catch up with Reed & kill him after a long
gun- & fistfight, & during all that, he can also clear his name
with the sheriff.
Kermit Maynard was a Westers supporting actor much in demand, but -
mainly thanks to the reputation of his more famous brother Ken Maynard -
occasionally he was also chosen as the lead of one or the other B-Western
series. Galloping Dynamite is one such film - & it's actually
pretty good for a B-Western on a small budget, having a story with quite
some unusual twists & turns, combined with competent cinematography
& fast-paced direction. It might not (& will never be) a classic,
but it's an hour of good Western entertainment.
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