Wild Country

Stanford Jolley escapes from prison. Authorities think he'll avenge himself on the sheriff who arrested him, so they send Eddie Dean and Roscoe Ates to track him down. Eddie begins by getting Roscoe thrown in jail for being Jolley, goes to see the sheriff and learns from his daughter, Peggy Wynne, that he has been killed, so he sings her a song and she's happy. Meanwhile Douglas Fowley doesn't want anyone killed.

It's a mildly incoherent entry in Dean's short career as a singing cowboy. I suspect director Ray Taylor was in no shape to direct (he wrote elliptically) because Miss Wynne seems to be in a fine mood for a girl who's lost her father. It's all rounded up with a long horseback chase-and-gunfight, and Dean leaving Miss Wynne, singing. I wonder what happened to Ates.