The very first film directed by William Clemens. School teacher Miss Carpenter (Marguerite Churchill) starts telling the class about the Dalton Gang, which was a real group of robbers, who pulled jobs in Kansas and California. She wants to elope with reporter Hank Dawson ( William Gargan), but when a famous crook escapes, all the big city reporters come to town, so Hank stalls and puts off the wedding... for now. She bumps into Kingman, unexpectedly, and has to decide if she will help him or not. Kingman is played by Ricardo Cortez, who was an old pro by now. and when is the last time you heard the word paregoric? apparently it's an opium based medicine. who knew? This one moves right along. another film with the same title was made in 1941, but doesn't seem to be the same story. it's pretty good. like a jazzed up episode of Andy Griffith. a bit dated, but has some excitement here and there.
