**SPOILERS** When Cowboy Bob Crandell got word from his friend Larry Moore that he struck it rich in his Nevada silver mine "The Two Friends" he shot right down to the Bonanza Territory to get himself a piece of the action. Since it's Bob who's the #2 Friend, after Larry Moore, that the mine is named after.
After stopping a stage coach robbery on his way to Two Friends Bob finds out that the attempted crook is Molly Allen the private secretary of Bonanza Properties CEO Frank Sheridan. It takes a while for Bob to realize that Sheridan is using Bonanza Properties as a dummy front for his mining conglomerate Triangle Mines. Triangle Mines is secretly being used by Sheridan to not only grab all the gold and silver mines in the territory but murder those who have claims on them! Like what turned out to be prospectors like Bob's murdered friend Larry Moore!
****SPOILER ALERT*** There's of course Larry's dog Rinty, or Rin Tin Tin Jr, who after becoming homeless when his master Larry was murdered, by Sheridan's thugs, has drawn a bead on Sheridan & Co. Rinty together with undercover, as the town weirdo, US government G-Man Looney end up getting the goods on Sheridan and his criminal empire. Bob with the help of Molly Allen who it turns out is actually Molly Weilborn who's dad was a victim of Sheridan greed,in his attempt to corner the Nevada gold & silver market, ends up breaking up his sleazy and criminal operation but only with the help from both Looney & Rinty in doing it.
You have to say one thing about Bob Crandell, or actor Rex Lease who plays him, in that he's very convincing riding a horse as well as putting together straight rights and left jabs when he's slugging it out with Sheridan and his gang. Despite the movies by the numbers storyline the both horse riding and fight scenes, that Lease seemed to do without the use of a double or stunt man, are as good as any you'll see in a top John Wayne or Gary Cooper Western of the period: The late 1930's.
There's also the added attraction in the film, besides Rinty who was barley in it, of Bob's amazing as well as laid back singing cowboy and guitar playing brother Hank. Hank sung two tunes including his signature song "Lonesome Cowboy" but it wasn't Hank's singing, or guitar playing, that really caught the audiences eye it was his skillful and garaging like, with Listerine, yodeling. I had a very strong feeling that the great vine swinging movie ape-man Johnny Weissmuller took yodeling lessons from Hank to prefect his famous Tarzan jungle call.
After stopping a stage coach robbery on his way to Two Friends Bob finds out that the attempted crook is Molly Allen the private secretary of Bonanza Properties CEO Frank Sheridan. It takes a while for Bob to realize that Sheridan is using Bonanza Properties as a dummy front for his mining conglomerate Triangle Mines. Triangle Mines is secretly being used by Sheridan to not only grab all the gold and silver mines in the territory but murder those who have claims on them! Like what turned out to be prospectors like Bob's murdered friend Larry Moore!
****SPOILER ALERT*** There's of course Larry's dog Rinty, or Rin Tin Tin Jr, who after becoming homeless when his master Larry was murdered, by Sheridan's thugs, has drawn a bead on Sheridan & Co. Rinty together with undercover, as the town weirdo, US government G-Man Looney end up getting the goods on Sheridan and his criminal empire. Bob with the help of Molly Allen who it turns out is actually Molly Weilborn who's dad was a victim of Sheridan greed,in his attempt to corner the Nevada gold & silver market, ends up breaking up his sleazy and criminal operation but only with the help from both Looney & Rinty in doing it.
You have to say one thing about Bob Crandell, or actor Rex Lease who plays him, in that he's very convincing riding a horse as well as putting together straight rights and left jabs when he's slugging it out with Sheridan and his gang. Despite the movies by the numbers storyline the both horse riding and fight scenes, that Lease seemed to do without the use of a double or stunt man, are as good as any you'll see in a top John Wayne or Gary Cooper Western of the period: The late 1930's.
There's also the added attraction in the film, besides Rinty who was barley in it, of Bob's amazing as well as laid back singing cowboy and guitar playing brother Hank. Hank sung two tunes including his signature song "Lonesome Cowboy" but it wasn't Hank's singing, or guitar playing, that really caught the audiences eye it was his skillful and garaging like, with Listerine, yodeling. I had a very strong feeling that the great vine swinging movie ape-man Johnny Weissmuller took yodeling lessons from Hank to prefect his famous Tarzan jungle call.