A young friend of Cassidy's named Tim Mason (Richard Crane) is framed for a robbery and then is killed while "escaping" from jail. Cassidy is blamed for killing his friend and drummed out of the Texas Rangers.
Cassidy (William Boyd) then begins to investigate and discovers a gang of smugglers behind the crimes and the killing. One of the members of the gang is named Nick Drago (Robert Mitchum) and he has a personal hatred for Cassidy.
Those two have some classic battles but in the end Hoppy regains his dead friends good name and we find that his being kicked out of the Rangers was only a ploy.
I found this to be a fast moving and fun western. It's the 50th of 66 Hopalong Cassidy westerns. The rest of the cast includes Jimmy Rogers, Andy Clyde, Monta Montana, Herbert Rawlinson and Frances Woodward.
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