Where The West Begins

Corrupt investor Mr. Barnes offers an unusually generous sum of money for the seemingly worthless land owned by Lynne Reed. Ranch hand Jack Manning catches a glimpse of Barnes' men taking soil samples from Lynne's homestead and grows suspicious of his interest in the property. In an effort to keep Manning from spoiling the deal, the unscrupulous Barnes frames him for cattle rustling and has him arrested. With only hours to go before the ranch is sold, Manning's partner Buzz hatches a risky plan that will either gain his friend's freedom or leave him at the end of a hangman's rope.

Jack Randall and Fuzzy Knight star in this old-fashioned western dating back to 1938. When a woman named Lynne Reed inherits some ostensibly useless land, she unwittingly becomes the innocent target of a crooked investor's scam and a fierce battle for land ownership ensues. When the shady Mr. Barnes offers Lynn Reed a great sum of money for the plot of land, hired hand Jack Manning suspects that he may have something up his sleeve. Jack steps in and attempts to come to Lynne's rescue, but his good intentions end up landing him in jail when after noticing Jack's suspicions, Mr. Barnes has him framed for a crime he didn't commit. In the end, both Lynne's land and Jack's fate rest in the hands of Jack's friend Buzz. With only a short amount of time in which to act, will Buzz be able to rise to occasion and emerge as a hero'