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Tom Keene gets put through the paces of RKO’s favorite “b” western plot: he’s falsely accused of killing traveling salesman Billy Franey, takes it on the lam, and searches for the real killer. In this case, the killer is wealthy Lee Shumway, who covets Keene’s girlfriend Nancy Drexel as much as Franey’s money belt. Franey’s grandson, pint-sized Bobby Nelson, is on hand to help out Keene, whom he regards as his partner now that Franey is dead.
The wrong-man-on-the-run-from-the-law routine gets tiresome pretty fast after watching more than half a dozen “b” westerns, so this film scores no points for creativity. It’s also pretty creaky for a 1932 release, especially from RKO, which was innovating sound design in leaps and…
Painfully standard early western. There were a couple of fun scenes and Tom Keene is pretty damn charismatic, but the low budget and standard tropes really hinder much of the enjoyment here. I did kinda like it as a comfort food of sorts though. I watched it late at night and it felt the shitty westerns I used to watch late at night as a kid, drifting in and out of sleep.