Mr. Rodney P. Black is the young new owner of the Bagley Ranch, but it turns out the kid is just a kid, actually a baby under the guardianship of Miss Sylvia Clark (Helen Parrish). If you've seen more than a handful of 'B' Westerns you know the set up from a mile away, because a dastardly villain is right around the corner attempting to swindle the ranch out from under it's rightful owner. In this case, Gregg Jackson (Onslow Stevens) hooks up with the Bagley Ranch caretaker Vera Martin (Joan Woodbury), and they run through all the tricks in the book - a phony five thousand dollar bank note, rustled cattle and a dammed up stream - to prevent Miss Clark from taking possession.
Not to worry, Roy, Gabby, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers have a half dozen songs in their arsenal to make this a fairly entertaining Western film. I especially liked 'A Cowboy Rocky-Feller' with it's upbeat tempo sung by Roy around the old campfire. Later on, and this is the only time I've ever seen it in over five hundred Westerns, Roy and his boys slide right into a song on the heels of a bar room brawl. It had to do with an Irish gal named O'Shea, and Gabby does his solo part in brogue! Very cool. Pat Brady's around too, and has some fun with 'A No Good Son of a Gun'.
For a flick that comes in under an hour, this one's got a lot going on between the shoot-outs, a rock slide and a flood orchestrated by the bad guys when they blow up their own dam (couldn't figure that one out). The Pioneers set a pie trap for Gabby (don't ask), and by the time it's all over, Roy's serenading Miss Clark one more time with 'Gates of the Home Corral'. The little tyke who figured in the main plot didn't have much to do except hang around and get fed his milk bottle every now and then, which wasn't a bad gig when you come right down to it.
Not to worry, Roy, Gabby, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers have a half dozen songs in their arsenal to make this a fairly entertaining Western film. I especially liked 'A Cowboy Rocky-Feller' with it's upbeat tempo sung by Roy around the old campfire. Later on, and this is the only time I've ever seen it in over five hundred Westerns, Roy and his boys slide right into a song on the heels of a bar room brawl. It had to do with an Irish gal named O'Shea, and Gabby does his solo part in brogue! Very cool. Pat Brady's around too, and has some fun with 'A No Good Son of a Gun'.
For a flick that comes in under an hour, this one's got a lot going on between the shoot-outs, a rock slide and a flood orchestrated by the bad guys when they blow up their own dam (couldn't figure that one out). The Pioneers set a pie trap for Gabby (don't ask), and by the time it's all over, Roy's serenading Miss Clark one more time with 'Gates of the Home Corral'. The little tyke who figured in the main plot didn't have much to do except hang around and get fed his milk bottle every now and then, which wasn't a bad gig when you come right down to it.