Wagon train guide Jim Davis arrives with the party in California to discover that the United States and Mexico are at war. This does not please high-born senorita Nancy Hadley, with whom he has been wrangling for the last thousand miles or so.
Davis seems earnest in his role, as if he hopes this will lead to better things. He had been appearing in westerns at Republic since 1942, and bit roles at Metro without getting much traction. Unfortunately director Edward Cahn was better noted for his efficiency than his star-making abilities, and the B western was a dying genre. So the battle sequences are taken from a movie shot ten years earlier, and everyone went back to earning a living and no accolades.
Davis seems earnest in his role, as if he hopes this will lead to better things. He had been appearing in westerns at Republic since 1942, and bit roles at Metro without getting much traction. Unfortunately director Edward Cahn was better noted for his efficiency than his star-making abilities, and the B western was a dying genre. So the battle sequences are taken from a movie shot ten years earlier, and everyone went back to earning a living and no accolades.