One of the Billy the Kid series. Fuzzy(Al St. John) knew he was playing with fire when he emptied the safe he and Billy Carson(Buster Crabbe) shared at their goldmine cabin. He just had to buy Old Man Taylor's saloon while the latter was in a selling mood. Taylor was afraid of lawyer and gang leader Horace Black, knowing that he also wanted to buy the saloon. Presumably, Black wanted to get some of the gambling money, but his main reason was the rumored gold mine entrance in a trapdoor in the office floor. Unfortunately, Black saw Fuzzy enter the saloon with his 3 bags of gold dust, and laid plans to intercept Taylor and his gold in his way out of town. This worked as planned. But, a similar plot to ambush Fuzzy was broken up by Ruth Lane(Sydney Logan), who happened to be riding around with her rifle........Well, Fuzzy soon discovered that managing a saloon wasn't as much fun as he anticipated, especially when his cook and bartender quit the first day(not clear why?). Pretty soon, he was ready to sell, even to Black, who brought the 3 sacks of gold Fuzzy had given to Taylor. Black wrote up a Bill of Sale, which was contingent on there being an entrance to a goldmine below the trap door. Fuzzy hadn't had time to read the conditions when they were disturbed by a gun battle in the saloon between several of Black's henchmen and Fuzzy's body guard. When Black stepped out into the saloon, he was shot by one of his henchmen who had guessed he was about to skip town with all the gold. Since the sale was invalidated by the goldmine provision, Fuzzy ended up with the clearly stolen gold and the saloon. He gave the gold to Buster to put back in their safe, and tried to give the saloon to his cook .......Besides Fuzzy, there are 2 other comical characters who show up frequently. Skinny Emmett Lynn is known as Webb, although Fuzzy calls him Webfoot, to his irritation. He initially was Fuzzy's cleanup man, but soon regained his prior occupation as cook, when the cook resigned. There is a stove pipe cook's hat that neither Fuzzy nor Webb can keep on their head correctly, because it's too big, and falls down over their eyes.......Then, there is rotund Charles King(Butch); an unruly customer, and later bodyguard for Fuzzy. He likes the superpowerful mixed drink that Fuzzy concocts, and is paid for his service in drinks. He also keeps getting hit on the head, and instigates the climax shootout that results in Black's death. King usually played villains, but here reverts to his former career in silent comedy shorts......The easily recognizable I. Stanford Jolley, in his usual villain role, plays Black, usually dressed in black.....This was Sydney Logan's only credited film role, she being cast in several uncredited roles. Michael Owen, who played her brother Jimmy Lane, was also mostly used in uncredited roles in a short film career......There's a whole nother side to the plot I haven't touched on, which relates to Black's attempts to secure the Lane's ranch, perhaps including Sydney, by devious means. Buster is much more involved than Fuzzy in this story. See the film to learn the details of this story. It's available at YouTube.
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