I didn't think much of the name for this picture going in, but was later surprised to see how they worked a title song around the theme. I was also surprised to find an element in a Western I had never seen before - the counterfeit Mexican Lottery gimmick. It gives Gene and his Texas Ranger sidekicks, including Pat Buttram as Pecos Bates, the opportunity to investigate a counterfeiting scam run by villain Tracy Wyatt (Tom Keane) and his band of henchmen.
Interestingly, Gene himself winds up romancing two leading ladies in the story. Well, maybe romancing isn't the right word; he's sought after by Rita Bagley (Mary Castle) in order to feed information to her real partner Wyatt. For her part, Nancy Carter (Gail Davis) has a thing for Gene that plays out satisfactorily by the end of the story. However I was puzzled a bit by those daydream sequences in the second half of the picture where Gene imagines himself with both ladies after Steve Diamond (Russell Hayden) hits the scene.
You know something that was odd? Check out that scene when an egg hits Pecos on the head from a chicken in the rafters of the barn. When the camera zooms in on the chicken, it turns out that it was a rooster! Why couldn't they just get a chicken?
Interestingly, Gene himself winds up romancing two leading ladies in the story. Well, maybe romancing isn't the right word; he's sought after by Rita Bagley (Mary Castle) in order to feed information to her real partner Wyatt. For her part, Nancy Carter (Gail Davis) has a thing for Gene that plays out satisfactorily by the end of the story. However I was puzzled a bit by those daydream sequences in the second half of the picture where Gene imagines himself with both ladies after Steve Diamond (Russell Hayden) hits the scene.
You know something that was odd? Check out that scene when an egg hits Pecos on the head from a chicken in the rafters of the barn. When the camera zooms in on the chicken, it turns out that it was a rooster! Why couldn't they just get a chicken?