There is a red herring thrown in at the beginning when the ranger who is working with Tom just happens to disappear at pivotal moments. Tom Tyler (who else) plays Ranger Tom, who is working under cover to trap some munitions smugglers. In a no holds barred fight Tom captures two but the ring leader, Travis, eludes him. Rex Lease is Jimmy, strangely referred to throughout the movie as "kid" even though, as one reviewer says, he and Tyler are the same age and, if anything, Tyler looks the more youthful.
By offering the "kid" his freedom, he finds a willing partner who is determined to lead Tom to Travis. Jimmy introduces them but also confesses his true motive to his sister Joan who begs Tom to keep Jimmy on the straight and narrow. Margaret Nearing is terrific as Joan (you don't often get to say that of a girl in westerns) who is introduced doing a very energetic tap dance. Things come to a head when one of the captured men escapes and recognises Tom, who is now part of the gang, as the Ranger who captured him. Jimmy is given a note for the Rangers, to lead them into a trap, and he approaches the task with such gusto that even Tom has doubts whether he has turned "baddie" again.
Rex Lease had been a handsome leading man as much at home in the saddle as in high society but as the 30s progressed his looks became more rugged until, by the 40s, he often found himself playing the villain to Gene Autry or Roy Rogers hero. Margaret Nearing had a short career of mostly uncredited bits, even though she came from a circus background and as a child entertained the W.W. 1 troops. With her blonde good looks she should have had a bigger career but after "Fast Bullets" she married and moved to Hawaii.
By offering the "kid" his freedom, he finds a willing partner who is determined to lead Tom to Travis. Jimmy introduces them but also confesses his true motive to his sister Joan who begs Tom to keep Jimmy on the straight and narrow. Margaret Nearing is terrific as Joan (you don't often get to say that of a girl in westerns) who is introduced doing a very energetic tap dance. Things come to a head when one of the captured men escapes and recognises Tom, who is now part of the gang, as the Ranger who captured him. Jimmy is given a note for the Rangers, to lead them into a trap, and he approaches the task with such gusto that even Tom has doubts whether he has turned "baddie" again.
Rex Lease had been a handsome leading man as much at home in the saddle as in high society but as the 30s progressed his looks became more rugged until, by the 40s, he often found himself playing the villain to Gene Autry or Roy Rogers hero. Margaret Nearing had a short career of mostly uncredited bits, even though she came from a circus background and as a child entertained the W.W. 1 troops. With her blonde good looks she should have had a bigger career but after "Fast Bullets" she married and moved to Hawaii.