Mesquite Buckaroo (1939)

Bob Allen (Bob Steele)of the Bar-A Ranch is the local rodeo champion. His biggest rival is Luke Williams (Ted Adams)of the Circle B. Jim Bond Frank LaRue), owner of the Circle B, and his daughter Betty Carolyn Curtis)are backing Luke to win. Bob's fiesty Aunt Sarah ('Juanita FLetcher')is betting heavily on her nephew, the big favorite. At Hawks' (John Elliott), where the stakes money is being held, "Trigger" Carson (Charles King), a Chicago gunman, suggests to Bob he should throw the rodeo and they can clean up by betting on Williams. Bob isn't having any of the proposition, so Carson has his henchies kidnap Bob.