"Puttin' Yourselves Above The Law Is Goin' To Put You Under Tombstones!"23 May 1940Western60 mins
The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he has both projects sabotaged pitting the friends against each other and running them out of money.
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