Well I've never seen William Boyd looking this dapper before. Going undercover as it were, Hopalong Cassidy dons a snazzy waistcoat and decorative cravat along with an assumed name, in the service of helping out an old Army buddy. Colonel Jed Landy's (Forbes Murray) son is on the run and facing court martial charges after striking an officer, and might turn into an outright desperado after hooking up with a gang in the town of Twin Buttes.
There's an interesting Professor Dixon (Robert Emmett Keane) character here who's hobby of choice happens to be collecting poisonous spiders. It's a bit comical actually when we see samples from his collection because they all have this large, rubber-like phony quality to them and they don't move. When Hoppy shoots one off the headboard of a bed Lucky Jenkins (Rand Brooks) is resting on, I wondered what might have happened if he missed. Could have been curtains for Lucky. The good professor himself wasn't quite so lucky later on in the story when his minions got loose and did him in. Not a nice way to go.
Anyway, the bad guys are about to rob a two hundred thousand dollar gold shipment by performing a switcheroo; they'll replace the gold bars with similar ones made of copper but covered with gold. Dressed as cavalry officers, the baddies will take the transfer of gold and replace it with the counterfeit stuff for it's final destination. If they had put this much effort into being good guys, they might have gone places.
Well there's never any doubt that Hoppy would get this all sorted out by the finale. He even wins over the evil professor's daughter (Jane Randolph) who refused to rent him a room upon his arrival in Twin Buttes. She winds up convincing her fiancé Bruce (Steve Barclay), the colonel's son, that a life of crime just wouldn't work out in the end. Isn't that always the case?
There's an interesting Professor Dixon (Robert Emmett Keane) character here who's hobby of choice happens to be collecting poisonous spiders. It's a bit comical actually when we see samples from his collection because they all have this large, rubber-like phony quality to them and they don't move. When Hoppy shoots one off the headboard of a bed Lucky Jenkins (Rand Brooks) is resting on, I wondered what might have happened if he missed. Could have been curtains for Lucky. The good professor himself wasn't quite so lucky later on in the story when his minions got loose and did him in. Not a nice way to go.
Anyway, the bad guys are about to rob a two hundred thousand dollar gold shipment by performing a switcheroo; they'll replace the gold bars with similar ones made of copper but covered with gold. Dressed as cavalry officers, the baddies will take the transfer of gold and replace it with the counterfeit stuff for it's final destination. If they had put this much effort into being good guys, they might have gone places.
Well there's never any doubt that Hoppy would get this all sorted out by the finale. He even wins over the evil professor's daughter (Jane Randolph) who refused to rent him a room upon his arrival in Twin Buttes. She winds up convincing her fiancé Bruce (Steve Barclay), the colonel's son, that a life of crime just wouldn't work out in the end. Isn't that always the case?