This Tom Tyler vehicle is something of an oddity: An old rancher (played by Lafe McKee) who is not as quick with his tongue as he is with his gun, is indicted for murdering a neighboring rancher. In reality, the neighbor was shot down by the Laramie Kid. Lafe McKee takes a shot at the Karamie Kid, but he escapes. This is an interesting, if somewhat lumbering, Tom Tyler vehicle in which Tom easily plays rings around the rest of the cast, despite a preposterous script in which Lafe McKee's character is held responsible for a murder he didn't commit. Nobody bothers to compare the bullet in the murdered man's body with the bullets from Lafe's gun, let alone check up on the whereabouts of the real killer – except for Lafe's son, played here by personable Tom Tyler. The love interest, Josephine Hill, however, with her toneless voice, is a write-off. Fortunately, her role is small. I remember she played the innocuous heroine of Jack Perrin's The Man from Oklahoma (1926), and in that too she was a write-off (although the film itself was great). This one is available from Alpha in what was once a very nice tinted print but has now sadly faded.
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