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Banker Ramsey (William Farnum) is so impressed by seeing ranch foreman
Tom Malone (Tom Mix) bringing in a gang of rustlers single-handedly that
he wants to make him foreman of his own ranch, which had been operating at
a loss because the current foreman McIntyre (Duke R.Lee) is a crook and a
rustler. Tom doesn't like the banker's snobbish big city behaviour though,
so he turns down the job, but Ramsey slips a letter of employment into
Tom's pocket anyways. What Tom likes though is Ramsey's socialite daughter
Mary (Ruth Hall), with whom he goes on a one-week partying spree that ends
with them being photographed leaving a speakeasy through a window during a
police raid, a photo that makes the front pages. Ramsey is furious, and he
blames it all on Tom of course. Tom knows he should lay low for a while,
so he starts his job at Ramsey's ranch - after all, he still has this
letter of employment - without Ramsey even knowing it. He is successful,
too, and has rounded up McIntyre and his gang of rustlers in no time. Then
Ramsey finds out who exactly is the new foreman of his ranch, and he has
Tom arrested. Tom's last threat is that he will slit Ramsey's ears ... Weeks
have passed, and Ramsey has nightmares about Tom slitting his ears,
nightmares that are only worsened by the accusing looks of his daughter.
Then he learns that Tom has broken out of jail, and he panics and puts
himself under police protection - after all, he doesn't want to have his
ears slit. Tom returns to Ramsey's ranch alright, and he has no problem
evading the authorities either, but not to slit Ramsey's ears - because
what would he do that for - but to elope with his daughter. All ends in
a chase by horse, car and motorbike to Mexico, where Tom and Mary marry at
the mission just South of the border while Ramsey and the cops are
detained at the border just long enough for the two lovebirds to exit man
and wife. A good-natured B-Western that hasn't got so much to
do with the "flaming guns" the title is promising but is more of
a lovestory with comedic undercurrents. Sweet, and a bit of a change to
the usual B-Western fare ... but maybe a bit too harmless to fully
convince. And Tom Mix isn't really the greatest when it comes to dialogue.
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