Baddies Stephen Westcott (Morris Ankrum) and Ed Martin (Trevor Bardette) have their eye on Jane Travers' (Minna Gombel) freighting company, and intend to hijack her wagons by masquerading their henchmen as cavalry soldier escorts. Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) sees through this ruse fairly early when the phony soldiers turn up wearing their own cowboy boots instead of military gear. Westcott's men took to heart the superstition that wearing dead men's boots would be bad luck, but as it turns out, they had enough bad luck of their own.
Hoppy is sidekicked by regulars Lucky Jenkins (Russell Hayden) and California Carlson (Andy Clyde) in this outing, and as usual, they make with their standard gimmicks. Lucky tries to get lucky with pretty Diana Westcott (Georgia Ellis), while California has his hands full attempting to escape the advances of a Mexican senora. At one point, it looks like curtains for Hoppy's Bar-20 pals when they all face a bad guy posse firing squad, but Cassidy makes the save single-handedly disguised in a monk's robe.
This was all pretty standard fare for matinée fans of the day, and breezes by pretty quickly with it's share of shootouts and chases on horseback. There's even a good old 'light's out' sequence at the local saloon, with Hoppy once again making a single-handed save for the good guys. Hard to believe, but the guy was just that good.
Hoppy is sidekicked by regulars Lucky Jenkins (Russell Hayden) and California Carlson (Andy Clyde) in this outing, and as usual, they make with their standard gimmicks. Lucky tries to get lucky with pretty Diana Westcott (Georgia Ellis), while California has his hands full attempting to escape the advances of a Mexican senora. At one point, it looks like curtains for Hoppy's Bar-20 pals when they all face a bad guy posse firing squad, but Cassidy makes the save single-handedly disguised in a monk's robe.
This was all pretty standard fare for matinée fans of the day, and breezes by pretty quickly with it's share of shootouts and chases on horseback. There's even a good old 'light's out' sequence at the local saloon, with Hoppy once again making a single-handed save for the good guys. Hard to believe, but the guy was just that good.