Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the Legion takes Joan Randall prisoner and leaves Cleve to guard her, he realizes that he cannot remain part of an outlaw band and decides to rescue Joan.
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Jack Holt as Jack Kells
Fay Wray as Joan Randall
Richard Arlen as Jim Cleve
Eugene Pallette as Bunco Davis
Stanley Fields as Hack Gulden
E.H. Calvert as Judge Savin
Ethan Allen as George Randall
Syd Saylor as Shrimp
Hank Bell as Kells Gang Member (uncredited)
Jim Corey as Kells Gang Member (uncredited)
Pat Harmon as Kells Gang Member (uncredited)
Otto Brower Director
Edwin H. Knopf Director
Percy Heath Writer
Edward E. Paramore Jr. Writer
Zane Grey Novel
Mack Stengler Director of Photography
Oscar Potoker Original Music Composer
United States 28 June 1930
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