Bar 20 Rides Again

This the third of the Hopalong Cassidy series finds Hoppy going to the aid fellow rancher Howard Lang. But he's got to catch up with Jimmy Ellison who has a big head start. Ellison's likes Jean Rouverol the rancher's daughter, but she's getting a whirlwind courtship from an elegant English dude Henry Worth who is secretly behind all the rustling going on.

Worth proves to be one of the more interesting villains in the whole Cassidy series. He's got some rather high falutin' ideas on good living out in the west and surprisingly for an Englishman he admires Napoleon Bonaparte. His men are even exasperated with his ideas, but he is making them money. That covers a multitude of sins.

I swear Hoppy ought to keep Ellison on a leash with a muzzle. That young man is more headstrong and keeps getting into jackpots in every Cassidy film.

The guys have more than one reason to leave the Bar 20 to help a friend. Buck Peters's sister Ethel Wales is in for a visit and she has all the cowhands doing her interior and exterior decorating. Facing outlaws is better than living with her and her tasks.

Watch and see what I mean.