West to Glory

Harry J. Vegar has a Spanish land grant. He also has a failing rancho, a bagful of gold nuggets (that transform into coins at the end), and an heirloom diamond. The gold and diamond get stolen, so it's up to sheriff Eddie Dean to fix the problem while singing three songs.

I don't expect much out of a PRC western, so it didn't hurt to watch this. Dean's singing is pretty good, even if sound engineer Glen Glenn doesn't bother to coordinate Eddie's mouth with the lyrics, and Dolores Castle looks beautiful, but is a terrible actress. Ray Taylor directs very efficiently from a script by Elmer Clifton. M. A. Andersen's camerawork seems to be up to spec (there's a specific tree on the Iverson ranch that pops up in every Dean oater) , but the copy I looked at was overexposed and mismatched.