Down on his luck Buck comes across the herd where the cow has died of thirst leaving a calf next to the pipe line he shoots a hole in. Suit & tie wearing Malcolm Waite has got the area's water tied up in the pipe refusing to sell so that he can get the small ranchers out.
Buck can't resist mammy's pies cooling on the sill setting her, heroine Browne Faire, comic deputy Eugene Palette and the dogs on his trail & he ends up in jail. However he outsmarts Palette and makes a prison break finding a dice game with comic ethnics where he manages to win the complete cowboy outfit.
He whistles up Silver to join him (the horse does the rescuing in this one) and after some comic bull riding, he escapes and shelters from a dust storm in the shack where he protects Brown Faire from heavy Waite before joining
the girl in riding through the storm to get to the (comic) trial where her dad Johnson is accused but the mob takes off after Buck again with some 1920's parcour over the town hall roof, the cattle barn and descending on bent trees.
The big action climax is the punch-out in the back of the racing wagon
Agreeably light weight and having some OK stunt work by Jones' character probably doubled. A couple of "thinks" superimpositions and a fair amount of production value suggest a bit of silent movie imagination. Jones, younger than we're used to seeing him is totally in his element.With
The You Tube Copy is tinted and runs at the right speed though it's not all that sharp.
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