Tumbleweed Trail

Shirley Patterson's father died and willed everything to Ted Adams. He wants Miss Patterson and her brother, John Wilder, off the ranch, but she's more than happy to shoot. So Adams and his henchmen steal the cattle, selling some off across the border for mysterious debts, and blockade the ranch. In ride Eddie Dean and Roscoe Ates. They offer Miss Patterson her help, and speak mysteriously of a "case".

Eddie sings a few songs very well, and Ernest Miller's photography is handsome in the sharp print I saw. The story seems chopped up and poorly edited, but at 57 minutes, it's watchable.

Shirley Patterson played leads in serials and B westerns, and uncredited bits in A pictures from 1942 through 1947, then laid off for six years to raise a family. She returned in 1953 to the same routine, with TV replacing the westerns, through 1959. She died in 1995 at the age of 72.