The Best thing about this movie are the bad guys played by stalwarts who knew how to be nasty: I. Stanford Jolley, Douglas Fowley, Forrest Mathews and others. Eddie Dean has a decent voice and sings some horrible songs - otherwise he is stiff with a range of emotional expression from A-B. Comedic actor Roscoe Ates is wasted trying to bring some humor to the movie. Peggy Wynne is this western's obligatory attractive woman - and she brings more fire to it than Dean, who turns her down at the end. He's got work to do. A few fist fights and a gunfight finale are not enough to rescue this sleeper. Good night.

Producer Jerry Thomas took over from the old guard at PRC and with the backing of Pathe Industries produced Eddie Dean & Lash LaRue westerns for a couple of years and he brought improved quality to all of them and when that company morphed into Eagle-Lion Pictures in 1948 he also produced four Red Ryder Westerns with Jim Bannon in Cinecolor through 1949. His touch makes the difference here.

Eddie Dean has a bland personna as a singing marshall, but he gets the job done.

Roscoe Ates was his sidekick in the Eddie Dean series and he had had a long career in films and later television as a light, stuttering comedian and he's better than you might think.

In this film, for buffs, it's a character actors feast. Doug Fowley, I. Stan Jolley, Lee Roberts, and many many more make this a better picture than it really is.(Pros at work!)

The songs and the music are well recorded, but not
necessarily part of the story. Eddie Dean could sing for sure.

I have seen this in A DVD-HD version and it's a much improved picture from this, but for MPEG-4 the picture quality isn't too bad. The sound is superior and the theme music is pretty good too.

It's your typical Saturday matinee western. If you're a buff you probably know it well, if not give it a look-see. There's a lot worse out there.