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- Buck Benson (Buck Jones), whose father, M.H.Benson (John Elliott),heads a lettuce growers association, volunteers to go to New York City to put an end to the racketeering activities of a so-called protective organization threatening the welfare of the growers. Arriving at the NYC produce market, Buck sees two small-time racketeers, tipping over loaded hand-trucks, He changes hats with Windy (Shemp Howard), a truck driver, and roughs up the men when they try to tip his load. His action wins the favor of Fred Calhoun, middle man for the growers and Windy's employer. Calhoun's daughter, Helen (Ruth Coleman) is also impressed. While conferring with Calhoun and Helen, Buck meets two more racketeers, throws them out of the office and tells them Calhoun will remain independent. Calhoun's lawyer, Eric Ward (Donald Douglas), who is in love with Helen, is in league with the racketeers. To stop Buck, Wards calls a meeting of the contract holders and invites Buck to attend.Several of the men, under Ward's instruction, decide to bolt Calhoun's company. Buck sees a significant glance pass between Ward and one of his henchmen after the man has spoken against Calhoun. Buck declares the lettuce growers are backing Calhoun and will not bow to the racketeers. The others quickly fall in line with Calhoun. Ward next tells Bert Lohman (Stanley Blystone), president of the protective association, of his plans to stop Buck. He frames Buck into going in Lahman's office, then makes Helen and her father believe that Buck has deceived them. Winy, who runs a gymnasium for boys as a sideline, doesn't fall for the story about Buck. Sensing something is wrong, Windy calls the police and then assembles a gang of tough East Side kids. Meanwhille Ward and Lohman are forcing Buck to sign a protection contract at the point of a gun. Buck stalls for time and then manages to catch his guards unawares and escapes after a terrific fist fight. Ward and his body-guards are watching his henchmen spoil the last lettuce shipment when Windy and his gang arrive. Buck arrives just in time to see Ward leave, lassos his body guards, and then, running across a roof top, jumps into Ward's car just as he starts to drive away.
- One of three films made by Columbia circa 1936-37 based on behind-the-scenes film making with a "western" setting ("The Cowboy Star", "Hollywood Round-up" and "It Happened in Hollywood"), plus RKO weighed in the same year with George O'Brien's "Hollywood Cowboy." It had been done before, RKO's 1933 "Scarlet River", and would be done again, "Shooting High" from 20th Century-Fox and Republic's "Bells of Rosarita", among others with a western setting, but this Coronet production with Buck Jones may well be the best of the lot as it devotes more footage to actual film-making both on studio sets and locations. One out-of-the norm plot incident has the studio head Lew Wallace offering a job to a fading star Carol Stevens, with a semi-apology for casting her in what he calls an "outdoor special" and she calls a "horse opry", and this scene in a B-western leaves no doubt that the B-western and it people were near the bottom of Hollywood's pecking order. The stereotypes are there, with Shemp Howard's over-zealous "assistant director" (who does calm down and gets more real when he loses his whistle), the ego-ridden "star" in Grant Drexel, and the deserving-to-be-the-star relegated to stand-in and stunts Buck Kennedy, but the remaining crew and player roles are realistic (especially the real stuntmen playing stuntmen). Buck Kennedy is the stand-in and double for star Grant Drexel and is fired when he has a fight with the bullying Drexel over Drexel's treatment of leading lady Carol Stephens. The movie company is on location, and a group of gangsters led by Eddie Kane and Lester Dorr, posing as another movie company, come to the location town and talk the banker into letting them film a fake holdup in his bank, but the holdup is real and the out-of-work Buck, whom they hire as the fall guy to cover their getaway, is left holding the bag and jailed by town sheriff Slim Whitaker. Things get worse for Buck before they get better. A mid-point sequence has hotel clerk George R. Beranger, who dreams of being a western star, performing a twittering, ballet-slippering audition for the checking-in film company by quoting lines from a western and asking them to identify the film. Shemp Howard guesses "Little Women."
- Ore shipments are being stolen and the Rangers send Buck and his men to guard the next shipment. When that is stolen also, Buck is kicked out of the Rangers. Crossing the border he joins the gang responsible for the robberies. But his dismissal is just a plan between him and the Captain so he can learn the identity of the gang leader known only as El Coyote.
- Buck and Skeeter have been sent to investigate cattle rustling. Posing as cowhands they take jobs on Ann's ranch and learn she is receiving money by train to pay off a note that is due. When the money is robbed from the train station, Buck and Skeeter find themselves in jail accused of the robbery.
- It's 1861 and Buck gets the business men of Sacramento to establish the Pony express. Hawley runs the stage line over the same route and has the U. S. mail contract. When it looks like the Pony Express will be awarded the mail contract, he gives guns to the Indians and has them attack both the riders and the stations.
- Halstead forces the Land Agent to alter the records and then kicks the Mexicans off their land. Buck has been sent to investigate and quickly joins up with Juan Cantova in the fight against Halstead. To keep Buck from seeing the records, Halstead has the Agent murdered. His men then claim Juan killed him and both Buck and Juan then find themselves wanted dead or alive.
- Children hide their father's spectacles.
- A rich uncle insists that the groom remains a bachelor.
- Uses a story about a toad to state a few simple concepts of science and as a basis for language arts activities. Reflects that there are more important matters than appearances. For primary grades.