Riders of the West (1942)

Ma Turner of Red Bluff sends for USMarshal Buck Roberts to investigate a series of widespread rustling in the area Town banker Miller saloonowner Duke Mason and the crooked sheriff are in cahoots with rancher John Holt but they doublecross and kill him His son Steve witnesses the murder and kills the sheriff Buck arrives and arrests Steve Marshal Tim McCall posing as an outlaw gains the confidence of the gang and engineers the escape with Bucks knowledge of Steve from the jail Sandy Hopkins the third Marshal of the trio poses as a peddler and learns that the gang intends to do away with Buck and rides to the Turner ranch to warn him Red a Turner ranch hand but also a member of the gang overhears Buck telling Ma that Tim is really a US Marshal and he has Miller and Mason informed Written by Les Adams