Six-Gun Serenade

When out-of-work, broke cowboy Jimmy Wakely gets into an altercation with Buck, the stingy operator of the Sweetwater livery, he and Buck's disgruntled hand, Lasses, are arrested. At the sheriff's rock pile compound, Jimmy, Lasses and four other cowboy prisoners play and sing songs until the music-hating sheriff decides to release them to rancher Mary Saunders' custody. Mary, who must sell her cattle and make a mortgage payment to banker Martin Kaly in one week, happily accepts the men's help, as all of her hands except Curt Weldon, her foreman, have quit due to attacks by rustlers. Unknown to Mary, Kaly has been plotting with Curt to force her to sell her ranch, and after Jimmy, Lasses and the others leave Sweetwater with Mary, Curt, Buck and three other henchmen try to ambush them on the trail. Although the attack is foiled, Curt and his men round up all of Mary's cattle and hide them in a blind canyon, intending to drive them over the border. Jimmy, Lasses and the others, meanwhile, scour the range in search of the cattle and reluctantly inform Mary that they have been unable to find the herd. That night, Curt and his men instigate a gunfight at the cowboys' camp, and Jimmy wounds a fleeing Curt in the arm. To protect Mary, Jimmy pretends to believe Curt's story that he was trying to warn the cowboys, but in private orders Curt to leave the country. Curt instead reports to Kaly, who tells the sheriff that Jimmy shot Curt and is trying to run him off. The sheriff agrees to arrest the cowboys again and heads for Mary's ranch with Curt and Kaly. Jimmy and the other hands, meanwhile, finally track the herd to the canyon, but before they can tell Mary about it, they are found and arrested for rustling. Now unable to move the cattle, Kaly orders Curt to kill Mary's cattle buyer, who is scheduled to arrive in Sweetwater that day, just before her mortgage payment is due. At the same time, on the way to Sweetwater, the cowboys escape from the sheriff, and Jimmy and Lasses trail Curt to the ranch house. There they overhear Curt tell Mary that the buyer has been robbed and killed and conclude that Curt must be secretly working with someone to ruin Mary. Jimmy and Lasses then follow Curt into town and see the stage on which the buyer was traveling just pulling in, bringing word of the attack on the buyer. After Curt accuses the cowboys of the crime, the sheriff vows to bring them in and goes to form a posse. Sure that Curt killed the buyer, Jimmy and Lasses trail him to Kaly's office and deduce that he must be working for the banker. Jimmy and Lasses then take the sheriff by surprise and force him to send the posse ahead. The cowboys finally convince the sheriff of their innocence and get him to help trap Curt by announcing that the buyer was only wounded and is being cared for at the doctor's office. As hoped, Curt sneaks up to the doctor's open window and fires a shot at a shape in the infirmary bed. Jimmy and Lasses spring from the office and capture Curt, who is then arrested by the sheriff. As he is being led away, Curt implicates Kaly, who is passing by, and the banker attempts to flee. Jimmy soon catches up to the banker, however, and the entire gang is thrown in jail. Later, while Kaly, Curt and the other rustlers toil away on the rock pile, the sheriff makes Jimmy, Lasses and the cowboys sing and play continuously for hours and hours.