Plot

“Bad” Bascomb (Beery) is wanted by the law. He and another thief find themselves inadvertently part of a Mormon wagon train heading to Utah. To escape the law, they pretend to be helpful, and Bascomb becomes fond of an admiring little girl played by O’Brien. Beery eventually distances himself from the other thief and saves the wagon train from an attack by Indians, before being taken captive by the law at the end of the movie.

Cast

• Wallace Beery as Zed Bascomb
• Margaret O’Brien as Emmy
• Marjorie Main as Abbie Hanks
• J. Carrol Naish as Bart Ramsey
• Frances Rafferty as Dora McCabe
• Marshall Thompson as Jimmy Holden
• Henry O’Neill as Governor Winton