One Man's Law

One Man's Law

57 mins | Western | June 29, 1940

In this old-time Western from director George Sherman, peaceable cowpoke Jack Summers takes the job of sheriff to help his adopted town in its bid to beat out a nearby settlement for a lucrative railroad contract. Trailcross is trying to get the new railroad and Stevens wants it to go to Mason City. Jack and sidekick Nevady arrive and when Jack faces down Stevens' men, he is made Marshal. The townspeople raise money for the railroad and entrust it to Jack. But Stevens plants two of his henchmen as Jack's escorts and they rob him. With the Railroad Officials due to arrive, Jack must retrieve the money.

One Man's Law

57 mins | Western | June 29, 1940

One Man's Law
In this old-time Western from director George Sherman, peaceable cowpoke Jack Summers takes the job of sheriff to help his adopted town in its bid to beat out a nearby settlement for a lucrative railroad contract. Trailcross is trying to get the new railroad and Stevens wants it to go to Mason City. Jack and sidekick Nevady arrive and when Jack faces down Stevens' men, he is made Marshal. The townspeople raise money for the railroad and entrust it to Jack. But Stevens plants two of his henchmen as Jack's escorts and they rob him. With the Railroad Officials due to arrive, Jack must retrieve the money.
Producers Republic Pictures
Original title One Man's Law
Directors George Sherman
Writers Jack Natteford, Bennett Cohen

Cast

Don Barry

as Jack Summers

Janet Waldo

as Joyce Logan

George Cleveland

as Judge Wingate

Dub Taylor

as Nevady

Edmund Cobb

as Red Mathews

Dick Elliott

as Prendergast

James H. McNamara

as George Martin

Robert Frazer

as Russell Fletcher

Rex Lease

as Spike Hudkins

Edward Peil Sr.

as Joel Winters

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

as Snowflake (as Snowflake)