 The fourth film in Columbia s "Rusty" series is a lecture against spreading gossip. A young army veteran (Stephen Dunne) comes to town, and Danny (Ted Donaldson) and his friends learn that he had spent time in a military stockade for an infraction of a regulation. Danny s friends spread the story all over town. The seriousness of the minor infraction grows with each telling.As a sidebar, Rusty (Pal the Wonder Dog)finds a mate and becomes a father.