Dick Hatton owns half the ranch. He loves Elsa Benham, who will inherit the other half when she comes of age. She likes him a lot, but right now is enamored of dude Robert Walker. In fact, she has agreed to elope with him. What no one knows is that Walker is the leader of a gang that has been rustling the ranch's cattle, and have robbed a string of banks. In fact, they've just robbed the local one, and are about to make their getaway, delayed by Walker wanting to take Miss Benham with him.
It's certainly not the most pristine of late silent westerns I have ever seen, and with about fifteen minutes of its original 50 absent, there are some abrupt issues. The fact that a newly hired hand has a plane which Miss Benham can fly because she learned how when she was visiting her uncle's ranch the previous summer made me blink a couple of times. Still, it allows a daring stunt as Hatton (or possibly his double) jumps from a rope ladder onto another man riding a horse. Neither are the titles well written. Still there are thrills, Art Mix has a small role as a government man in a big white hat who shows his badge to the characters, and we can be confident that right will prevail in the Great West.
Besides acting, Hatton also directed a few silent movies. By the early sound era he had slipped into henchman roles. He died in a road accident in 1931 at the age of 42.
