Marshal of Gunsmoke

Ward Bailey arrives as the new Marshal of lawless Gunsmoke, where Citizens of Gunsmoke are being intimidated by Lon Curtis (Harry Woods) and his gang who are preventing an election to vote on a township charter, and a corrupt defense lawyer makes the pursuit of justice very difficult. Complicating the matter that he's the marshal's brother.

Tex Ritter is the Marshal of Gunsmoke and predictably is here to clean up a town called, eh, Gunsmoke, and that's an aptly named town as there will be plenty of gunsmoke before his job is done. His job is complicated by the arrival of his lawyer brother who works for the villain (to be fair, he had hoodwinked the lawyer into it) but there's no taxing brother vs brother subplot - Russel Haydn as the brother soon gets on the right side. Not after a frame-up, nefarious schemes and an election where the bad guy could win by crooked means.

Marshal of Gunsmoke is a breezy, fun western with all the right ingredients- some nice songs sung by the charming Jennifer Holt, energetic gunplay, impressive stunt work like Ritter leaping from his horse on two escaping riders and a Stagecoach scene with Fuzzy Knight on top bellowing at the top of his lungs as the horse-less Stagecoach goes out of control. Nothing taxing for the brain with deep studies into the realm of the mind, just breezy western action for pleasant viewing.