Lone Avenger, The 1937
Cal Weston, after an absence of many years (in a remake of his 1930
Universal film “The Fighting Legion”), rides into Mesa to visit his father,
co-partner of the town bank with Jud Winters. Cal discovers the sheriff and
the coroner, Doctor Crandall in his father’s office examining his body with
Crandall rendering a verdict of suicide. Cal knows it wasn’t suicide as the
gun is in his right hand and John Weston was left handed, and he cautions
Winters, the only person in town who knows his true identity, not to reveal
it. Cal then begins his quest to find the killer and the motive, a quest
hampered when the bank’s crooked bookkeeper Martin Carter has his henchman
Burl Adams and two accomplices ambush and shoot the examiner from the
country seat, and then has a fake examiner declare that the bank has been
looted by John Weston, and Carter declares that Cal, whose true identity
has been learned, knows where the money is. Maynard, as usual, gets tied up
in order his give his horse “Tarzan”… Written by Les Adams
