Gentlemen with Guns

Crabbe learns that his side kick Al St. John has arranged a mail-order fiance through a matrimonial agency, and that a powerful neighboring rancher is trying to pressure St. John into selling valuable water rights. The villain, licked by the boys, vows to get even, and convinces the sheriff that St. John is a rustler. The villain and the sheriff go after St. John; St. John is framed for the sheriff's murder; the fiance shows up and offers to marry St. John immediately, planning to sell the water rights to the villain after the hanging. Crabbe has become suspicious, busts up the wedding, and takes St. John back to jail. The good citizens are hyped into a lynch mob by the villain; St. John is despondent, figuring that his old pal has abandoned him. Just in the nick, Crabbe beats the truth out of the villain that the murder was a phony, using ketchup for blood; St. John is saved from the mob; the fiance leaves town in a fury of frustration, and the pals are reunited as St. John vows bachelorhood forever. (publicity release)