Black Hills

Struggling rancher Steve Clark tells his children, Shirley Patterson and Steve Drake, that he may have a surprise that will save the ranch. When he shows the gold vein he has located to his friend Terry Frost, Frost shoots him, hides the body, and begins to plot how to get his hands on the ranch, despite the avuncular attitude of George Chesebro, who owns the mortgage. Good thing they have Eddie Dean coming in to be top hand!

It's competently handled by director Ray Taylor, but so bog standard in its plot that Dean's mediocre acting abilities can't keep it particularly interesting. The songs are all right, Roscoe Ates plays card tricks, and it's so undistinguished that, even though there's nothing wrong with it, if you don't have anything better to do for an hour..... take a nap.