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After falling out with Mary Ann (Kaye edwards), the woman he has fallen
in love with, Tex (Jack Hoxie) hooks up with carefree drifters Skinny
(Harry Todd) and Windy (Ben Corbett), and he soon finds employment with
Bill Jarvis (Slim Whitaker), who hires Tex to drive one Jim Perkins (Lane
Chandler) off his property - but when Tex realizes Jim is the cousin of
Mary Ann and she's staying with him presently, he decides to switch sides
... thing is, neither Jim nor Mary Ann believe him, and eventually, Tex
finds himself on the run from everybody - exactly when a claim has to be
filed on some oil-rich land within Jim's property - but after an extended
chase and fistfight, Tex manages to file the claim in Jim's and Mary Ann's
claim while he also inherits the farm Jarvis is foreman at - and
immediately fires him. And wouldn't you know it, in the end, Tex gets the
girl, too. Light-footed B-movie that puts its emphasis less on
action and more on comedy - and at least to an extent, it succeeds: Jack
Hoxie seems to be very much at ease with the fun aspects of the script,
Harry Todd and Ben Corbett are humourous sidekicks without being annoying,
and several slapstick scenes (like the sheriff being driven over the
plains to the showdown in a car in reverse gear) are actually inspired -
at least in a Western context. This all does not make Trouble Busters
a perfect movie, a flat directorial effort and an obviously low budget
keep it from that, but still it's a likeable little film.
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