A man posing as Mark Henry is after Henry's oil land but Henry's niece is part owner and he needs to marry her off to his henchman Slager. Mountie Jim Sullivan arives posing as a wanted man and is soon caught up in the plot when Slager, wanting everything for himself, kills his boss and makes Jim a prisoner.
Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you have a soft spot for grainy, low-budget Westerns from an era where everyone spoke in complete, stiff sentences. If you need tight pacing or a story that makes sense without squinting, you’re going to hate it. It feels like a rough draft of a better movie that just never happ...
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"Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you have a soft spot for grainy, low-budget Westerns from an era where everyone spoke in complete, stiff sentences. If you need tight pacing or a story that makes sense without squinting, you’re going to hate it. It feels like a rough draft of a better movie that just never happened. The plot is exactly what you think it is. A guy is pretending to be Mark Henry, there’s an oil land dispute, and someone’s niece is being forced into a marriage she clearly ..."
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