 In this vaguely-similar remake of Hoot Gibson s silent version from Universal, Jim Reardon (Johnny Mack Brown), seeking the man who murdered his father, poses as Horace McPhail, long-absent son of rancher "Roaring Dan" McPhail (Robert Homans) . The old man assigns Tick Belden (Fuzzy Knight) and his sister, Jane (Nell O Day), the task of teaching the "tenderfoot" how to take care of himself in the rough frontier country. In Tiger Bend, Jim discovers Thorndyke (John Eldredge), his father s killer. Thorndyke heads a gang of rustlers and when Eris Brooke (Jean Brooks as Jeanne Kelly), visiting New York débutante, witnesses a killing, Thorndyke orders her kidnapping. Jim and Tick rescue her and bring her to the courthouse as star witness against Thorndyke s henchmen. Thorndyke and his men turn their guns on Jim, Tick, "Roaring Dan" and his cowhands (mostly the KCBS-Texas Rangers band members.) Thorndyke is captured by Jim. McPhail admits he knew all the time Jim wasn t his son Horace (who, evidently, was about the same caliber as John Wayne s clumsy son Horace in "True Grit"), but adds he is proud to have Jim known as the son of Roaring Dan.