The once-promising career of Wayne Morris had long-since deteriorated into a string of low-budget programmers by the time he made this effort for the Poverty Row studio Westwood Productions. He plays the title character, a deputy Marshal who's getting a little fed up with only ever being called upon to shoot bad guys from a distance. When his boss goes missing while on the hunt for rustlers, Morris sees it as a perfect opportunity to show how useful he can be as an undercover lawman, but finds the job to be tougher than he expected.
Morris gives a dependable enough performance, although it's not difficult to see why his star faded so early in his career, and pint-sized Elena Verdugo is cute as his love interest, but no movie in which most of the supporting cast each made literally hundreds of movies in their career is going to be anything more than filler. Good to see I Stanford Jolley playing a good guy for a change, though.
