Jon Hall didn't make that many Westerns in his career but if you were an action leading man of the 1940s you couldn't really escape sometime in the saddle so here he is in an effort for Robert Lippert.
The plot is very stock - Hall is a marshall who comes across an old timer with a map that involves a railroad scheme. The old timer is killed and Hall gets involved in fixing it.
The cast has some novelty - Hall's real life wife at the time, singer Frances Langford, plays his love interest here, and she sings a song. Dick Foran, who starred in some B Westerns, is a baddie. Julie Bishop is second female lead.
William Berke directed. He made a few films with Hall around this time. Berke liked to use close ups, so this plays well on television, and knew how to stage an action film. But it's a clunky, sluggardly film. I guess it's not a bad story (I couldn't pick the final twist), it's just very familiar.
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