Rangers of Fortune (1940)

Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland roam the west in search of adventure Arriving in a small town they befriend the elderly newspaper editor Arthur Allen and his young granddaughter Betty Brewer The trio learns that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron Joseph Schildkraut who is endeavoring to push out the ranch owners and take over the territory