Plot

The small church Ted Burke pastors in a small Western town struggles to thrive as all the men gather at Jack Higgins' Mustang Saloon every Sunday. Burke decides to ask Higgins to close his business on Sunday, but Higgins' only concern is to find a baritone to sing in the saloon's quartet, and has his henchies toss Ted out into the street. Ted decides to fight fire with fire, so he gathers up the down-and-out vaudeville act of Chase and Chase (who don't take long to show why they are down-and-out), knife-thrower Steve Clemente, and a dozen or so Western musicians from Gower Gulch as the before-the-sermon at his tabernacle. Higgins sends his rowdies over to bust up the Sunday-morning competition.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

It's Sunday in the Wild West town of Springerville and the Wild Mustang, the local saloon run by Jack 'Jake' Higgins, is as busy as ever, mostly because of the wide array of entertainment Jake provides, although he is dismayed that he has not yet found a replacement baritone for his own-led quartet. Meanwhile, attendance at the Mammouth Tablenacle, the local church newly led by Parson Ted Burke, is sparse, as is its collection plate. As the people aren't coming to church, Ted decides to go to the people, who are primarily at the Wild Mustang, to entice them to come to church on Sundays instead. When Ted's direct appeal fails and is mocked by Jake, who won't cave in to the parson, Ted believes the only way to get the people to church and not have it close is to fight fire with fire: provide entertainment, albeit more wholesome than what is provided at the Wild Mustang. Will the townsfolk of Springerville give Ted's show a chance, and is there any way that Ted and Jake can live in harmony on Sundays?—Huggo