Heading West (1946)
6/10
Some Misdirection In The Opening
8 June 2023
Gold has been discovered in the Sioux' sacred Black Hills, and prospectors are pouring in, in defiance of treaties. Indian agent Charles Starrett.... what's that? He's gotten a newspaper from Bonanza City claiming his outlaw alter ego, the Durango Kid has been robbing gold shipments? That's far more important than what will develop into Little Big Horn, so he and inept magician Smiley Burnette mount their horses and head to Bonanza City. There, crooked mining machinery salesman Norman Willis and outlaw leader Bud Geary have secretly combined to steal all the gold shipments and foreclose on the mines, if they can keep from double-crossing each other.

Despite the rocky start, there are some nice plot points in this B western written by Ed Earl Repp. Hank Penny & His Plantation Boys play a couple of rounds and back up Burnette's comic songs, and things will settle out well, without anyone suspecting Starrett is also the Durango Kid, or wondering where he keeps that second horse.
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