Summary
Tom Duffy is a man living in two worlds: the dusty reality of the Flying-U Ranch and the glossy, escapist pages of movie magazines. As the son of the ranch’s co-owner, Tom’s life is tethered to the land and to Mary Smith, the co-heir and ward of his father. Yet, Tom’s heart belongs to Pandora Golden, a silver-screen 'vamp' who represents everything the rugged West is not. The boundary between fiction and reality dissolves when Pandora’s film crew selects the Flying-U as their latest location. This intrusion of Hollywood artifice brings Courtney, a predatory co-star who sees Mary’s inheritance as a bigger prize than any box office hit. While Tom is blinded by Pandora’s staged affections, Courtney orchestrates a manipulative elopement with Mary. It takes a life-threatening encounter with a charging bull and a hidden maternal secret to shatter Tom’s delusions, forcing him to trade his magazines for a saddle in a desperate race to stop a domestic tragedy.
Synopsis
Tom Duffy, whose father is the half-owner of the Flying-U Ranch, spends half his time reading movie magazines and the other half with Mary Smith. Mary and her kid-brother, Frankie, are heirs to the other half of the Flying U, and wards of Tom's Father. Tom's interest in movie magazines is Pandora Golden, the movie vamp. Tom is thrilled when he learns that Pandora's next film will be shot on the ranch. Pandora's co-star, Courtney, learns of Mary's inheritance, and he conspires with Pandora to lure Tom away while he talks Mary into eloping. The latter, seeing Tom in Pandora's arms, gets angry and tells Courtney she will elope with him. Meanwhile, a child actress with the movie company, is rescued from a raging bull by Tom, and Tom learns that Pandora is the child's mother. She tells him of the scheme to make Mary marry Courtney, and Tom hits the saddle and takes out after Courtney the Cad.
