 This film is a nearly-exact remake ---including most of the dialogue and scene set-ups --- of both 1931 s "Galloping Trail,  that starred Tom Tyler and 1935 s "The Dawn Rider," starring John Wayne. Most of the role names remain unchanged from the John Wayne version where Wayne played  John Mason" and Bob Baker plays "Bob Mason  in this film. But the role names of  Alice Gordon," "Ben McClure," "Dad Mason" and "Rudd Gordon" remain unchanged in the Wayne-Baker versions. Since Trem Carr and Paul Malvern produced all three versions, the only foul that can be called is that Norton Parker gets a story credit on this film for the story that was originally written by and credited to Lloyd Nosler in the first two versions. (The writer s union was not a force to be reckoned with in the 1930s, especially for writers plying their trade on Poverty Row and in B-Westerns.) Anyway, same story here as in the first two versions; Bob Mason gets a gunshot wound while chasing the killers of his father, Dad Mason, and he is nursed by Alice GORDON in both films (albeit played by different actresses) and, as the original story writer had and Parker saw no reason to change it, Mason s friend, Ben McCLURE, plans on marrying Alice. Mason soon learns that Alice s brother, Rudd GORDON, was the killer of his father and, since he and Alice have a developing romance, this makes for s sticky situation. Especially since friend Ben is the one who deposited friend Bob at Alice s house to begin with. It gets stickier when Rudd convinces Mason s friend, Ben McClure,that Mason is taking his he-thinks girlfriend away from him, and Ben is none to pleased with what he considers his friend s duplicity. So, just before Mason heads out for a shootout showdown in the town-street with Rudd, Ben removes all the bullets from Mason s gun. And Mason is about to learn that taking an empty gun to a gunfight is nearly as bad as taking a knife.