Texano Solitário

Oil wildcatter Fred F. Sears is having trouble meeting his notes on the many oil leases he has around Oil City, Texas. Outlaws keep shooting up his crews and wrecking his equipment. So he calls in his buddy Charles Starrett to boss the crews. Meanwhile, shopkeeper Smiley Burnette is sweet on local lady Mary Newton.... who's behind the bandits.

It's an overly complicated plot for Miss Newton to gain control of the oil leases, but even so, it takes up only about half of this Durango Kid B western. Burnette fills in the time with his naive clowning and five songs, and Starret dresses as the Durango Kid, seemingly so the bad guys can blame him for Sears' problems. It's adequate for Starrett's many fans.

Sam Jason is being harassed by a gang that's after his oil leases secretly led by attractive widow Clarabelle Adams, and he looks to old friend Steve Driscoll and his alter ego, the Durango Kid.

Guess who the chief villain was wasn't too much of a surprise but it was quite refreshing in an otherwise fairly routine Durango Kid entry that has the formula of action, comedy and singing down pat. It's nice to see Smiley Burnette getting some romance, however short lived that is.