Review by boblipton

Rita Hayworth -- still credited as Rita Cansino -- shows up in President Zachary Taylor's office. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is not being administered, and lots of bandits have taken over the area between modern-day San Diego and Los Angeles. Taylor responds with concern, hints at dark forces to his aide, Captain Tom Keene, and sends the grinning youngster out to the Coast to administer it personally. He shows up alone and unarmed at the offices of self-proclaimed Judge and professional drunkard Robert McKenzie, shows his papers. Whereupon Roger Gray tears them up and has McKenzie throw him in jail. Miss Hayworth's brother, Duncan Renaldo, rescues him, but gets shot and dies, and Gray takes over the Renaldo-Hayworth ranch.

It's one of those movies where everyone is an idiot, and history is reduced to piffle to fit the dumb narrative that the film makers have settled on. Keene spends the first twenty minutes grinning like he's read John T. Neville's script and knows he's going to be awarded Miss Hayworth as an attendance prize, while the adults who finally show up, including Theodore Lorch, will do the actual work of rooting out the bad guys. Miss Hayworth would 'star' in four of these movies before heading back to Columbia. Keene, a capable actor under good directors, would continue to decline, try changing his name, and die in 1963 at the age of 66.