Veteran western villain I. Stanford Jolley has persuaded the Governor of Texas to get the legislature to charter a bank in his town. Jolley who is a leading citizen is a high toned skunk of a crook to borrow a phrase from another western. He wants a bank so that all the people who keep their money in the mattress will put it in a bank that he and his henchmen have every intention of robbing.
But for Buster Crabbe in the title role they might have carried off their dastardly scheme. Crabbe is Fighting Bill Carson and he's nearly fooled by the charms of Kay Hughes who is Jolley's niece. Nearly, but not quite as Hughes makes a slip that leads to the whole scheme unraveling and a mystery being solved.
Al St. John is in this one, but technically not a sidekick though he's Crabbe's friend and owner of the general store. St. John is not as oafish or as funny as he normally is because part of the plot has him becoming the bank president. And if he were the usual Al St. John no one would have put their money in a bank run by him.
Considering this is a PRC release it's not a bad film all things considered.
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