The Lone Hand Texan

Oil wildcatter Fred F. Sears is having trouble meeting his notes on the many oil leases he has around Oil City, Texas. Outlaws keep shooting up his crews and wrecking his equipment. So he calls in his buddy Charles Starrett to boss the crews. Meanwhile, shopkeeper Smiley Burnette is sweet on local lady Mary Newton.... who's behind the bandits.

It's an overly complicated plot for Miss Newton to gain control of the oil leases, but even so, it takes up only about half of this Durango Kid B western. Burnette fills in the time with his naive clowning and five songs, and Starret dresses as the Durango Kid, seemingly so the bad guys can blame him for Sears' problems. It's adequate for Starrett's many fans.