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Billy Carson (Buster Crabbe) shoots lawyer Carr (Lynton Brent) and
businessman Brett (Jack Ingram) in self defense before a mob led by
marshal Barker (Glenn Strange) dan catch up with him and his sidekick
Fuzzy (Al St.John). Barker wants to immediately arrest them and throw away
the key, but enter marshal Riley (Ed Cassidy) who wants to hear what Billy
has to say. So Billy tells about the time when he and Fuzzy were boys
heading for the West with a wagon train, when Carr cheated all of the
settlers out of their deeds, and when a gang of outlaws in league with
Carr attacked and killed all the settlers (apart from Billy and Fuzzy
apparently). Billy spent the next decades trying to track down Carr, but
it was here in town - where he also met Fuzzy again after years - that he
finally caught up with him, and thanks to Brett's secretary (Evelyn
Finley), he also learned about Brett's involvement in the whole deal. So
after the usual fights and shoot-outs, plus a few explosions (Fuzzy is an
explosives salesman in this one), he and Fuzzy paid a visit to first Carr
and then Brett ... and you know the rest. Back in the now, Billy finds
the deeds Carr has stolen from the settlers in Brett's office to prove his
story - and Riley immediately has marshal Barker, who has been on Brett's
payroll, arrested. Of course, this is basically your typical
B-Western, but it's made slightly more interesting than the usual genre
output by moving the finale to the start of the movie and then telling the
story in flashback. Plus, Sam Newfield had one of his more inspired days
when directing this one (don't expect a masterpiece though) and Buster
Crabbe and Al St.John make a better than usual hero-sidekick couple.
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