Romance Rides the Range (1936)

Baritone singer Barry Glendon completing a successful season in opera departs for his ranch in the west over the objections of his manager Tony Arriving there with his doubletalking friend Shorty Barry learns that a parcel of his vast ranch has been fraudulently sold to Carol Marland and her ailing and tiresome young brother Johnny Pretending he is only the foreman and having his cowhands go along with itBarry allows Carol and her whining growingevermoretiresome brother to believe that they are the actual owners in order to give him a free hand in running down the swindlers who victimized Carol who with a brother like hers was a victim to begin withBarry learns that brothers Clem and Jonas Allen are the villains andthrough a ruse in which they are led to believe there is a hidden treasure on the land they sold Carol they try to buy it back bidding against Barry who forces the price up