The King of the Valley is Dave King (Walter Pidgeon) and he is looking at potential financial problems. The market for cattle might dive and he has the largest herd.
The bank will not give him a load. His friend at the bank Charlie Coleman refuses him a loan so King helps himself to $10,000. Telling Coleman to draw up the loan papers.
Coleman has some kind of a fit and dies just moments after King left the bank. It seems King did not need the money, the money for the cattle hers rebounds as the US army need the beef.
Only King is looking to get lynched from the townsfolk after there is a shortfall of $50,000 at the bank. He only took $10,000.
Maybe King was stitched up by Charlie's widow who always had a thing for King. It might also be that Coleman was creaming off some of the bank funds.
An uneven story with flaws. The bitterness of some of the townspeople towards King was hard to understand. There might be envious of him as King was wealthier than them, he might even be arrogant.
The unrequited love story was a nice but more could had been done with the a woman scorned angle.
The bank auditors left a lot to be desired.
The bank will not give him a load. His friend at the bank Charlie Coleman refuses him a loan so King helps himself to $10,000. Telling Coleman to draw up the loan papers.
Coleman has some kind of a fit and dies just moments after King left the bank. It seems King did not need the money, the money for the cattle hers rebounds as the US army need the beef.
Only King is looking to get lynched from the townsfolk after there is a shortfall of $50,000 at the bank. He only took $10,000.
Maybe King was stitched up by Charlie's widow who always had a thing for King. It might also be that Coleman was creaming off some of the bank funds.
An uneven story with flaws. The bitterness of some of the townspeople towards King was hard to understand. There might be envious of him as King was wealthier than them, he might even be arrogant.
The unrequited love story was a nice but more could had been done with the a woman scorned angle.
The bank auditors left a lot to be desired.