Ridin' for Justice

Jan 4, 1932

1h 1m

★ 0.0

The screen's greatest outdoor star!

Overview

More a romantic melodrama than a true Western, this Buck Jones vehicle from Columbia starred Jones as Buck Randall, a carefree cowboy whose popularity with the local saloon girls becomes the talk of the town.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Buck Randall

Buck Jones

Mary Slyde

Mary Doran

Marshal Joseph Slyde

Russell Simpson

Deputy Alex Frame

Walter Miller

Judge Septimus P. Spear (as Bob McKanzie)

Robert McKenzie

Ranch Boss Tom Wilson (as William Walling)

Will Walling

Sam - the Stutterer

Billy Engle

Pete - The Drunk

Hank Mann

Sandy Doyle, gambler and political chief of a small border town, seeks to gain control of the Bar-X Ranch, owned by Rufe Rickson, to further some undercover activities of his own. He counts on Rickson's inability to stay away from gambling as the means to his ultimate success. Government investigator Oliver Shea and his assistant, Dan Haggerty, start a fight in Doyle's place when they see Rickson being cheated and are invited to the Bar-X where Oliver and Helen Rickson, Rufe's daughter, discover interest in each other and Dan finds himself pursued by Bell, the ranch cook. Sheriff Larson brings the prize money for the $5,000 race of the Rodeo Association, and that night it is stolen.

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